From the November 16, 2022, Stars & Stripes.
Beecher City, Illinois
An Illinois sailor who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been laid to rest in his home state more than eighty years after his death.
U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class Keith Tipswood was buried Thursday alongside his parents and other relatives at Moccasin Cemetery near the rural Central Illinois village of Beecher City.
Tipsword was 27 years old when he was killed aboard the battleship USS West Virginia.
His remains were buried as unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, but they were identified this year by the defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
Dalyne Sapp of Effingham, the last of his siblings surviving attended Tuesday's funeral sefrvice. Sapp, 86, said her brother is now buried near the family farm where he grew up among the "hills and hollers" of Effingham County's Moccasin Township.
--GreGen
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