Another Oklahoma Unknown Buried: Hupert P. Hall of Kentucky

March 17, 2020--  The remains of Seaman 2nd class Hupert Preston Hall were laid to rest at the National Memorial of the Pacific, or Punchbowl, in Oahu.  He was 20 years old when he died on the USS Oklahoma.

On June 26, 1940, he came to Owensboro from his home in Cloverport to enlist  in the U.S. Navy in the hopes of learning a trade.

He was one of the estimated 388 bodies taken from the wreck of the ship when it was uprighted.

The Kentucky governor ordered all flags in the state flown at half mast March 17 in his honor.  He was from Floyd County.

--GreGen