From the December 23, 2020, Arkansas Democrat Gazette "Remains of Arkansas sailor confirmed" by Brianna Kwasnik.
Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Isaac Parker of Woodson was assigned to the USS Oklahoma that was moored in Battleship Row by Ford Island in Pearl harbor that day. He was among the 429 who died aboard the ship.
The reason so many of the crew were unidentified was that their bodies were no recovered until starting in 1943. In 1947, thirty-five bodies were identified. In October 1949, all the rest of the remains were classified as "non-recoverable."
However, now, using DNA, most of those Oklahoma "Unknowns" are being identified.
Isaac Parker was a black man and will be buried June 8, 2021 at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. His father, Holsey C. Parker was a U.S. Army veteran from World War II and is also buried at that cemetery.
He was born on June 8, 1824, and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17.
--GreGen
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