Oklahoma Family Honors Life of Sailor Who Died at Pearl Harbor on Board the USS Oklahoma

From Oklahoma 6, Tulsa by Sawyer Buccy.

Navy Fireman 1st Class Rex E Wise, of  South Haven, Kansas, was 21 when he met his death on December 7, 1941, on board the USS Oklahoma.    He was reburied on what would have been his 100th birthday.

Rex's 83-year-old niece Marilyn Weller, said her mother had sent DNA to the Department of Defense in 2015 and she died in 2017.  Two years later, the Defense department confirmed a match with her uncle among the USS Oklahoma Unknowns who had been buried in Hawaii.

--GreGen