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With full military honors, he was laid to rest in the Braman Cemetery, beside his parents and siblings, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

On October 14, 2020, Rex Elwood Wise returned home to Braman. In April of 2015, the United States Department of Defense announced that the unidentified remains from the USS Oklahoma would be exhumed for DNA analysis, with the goal of returning identified remains to their families. In 1950, all unidentified remains from the Oklahoma were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. They were disinterred in 1947, in an unsuccessful attempt to identify more personnel. The remains of 388 unidentified sailors and Marines were interred as unknowns in the Nu’uanu and Halawa cemeteries. In 1943, the USS Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. He was declared dead while missing in action or lost at sea. On December 7, 1941, Fireman First Class Wise was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which capsized following multiple torpedo hits during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the United States Navy on December 27, 1939. While attending school in Braman, he was on the basketball team. He was raised in Braman and South Haven, Kansas. Rex Elwood Wise was born on Octoin Braman, the son of Henry Blaine and Belle Marlow Stacy Wise. Mancel Curtis Lane is memorialized on The Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, HI. On Decemhe was declared dead while missing in action or lost at sea. With a rank of Seaman First Class, he was assigned to the battleship USS Arizona as an assistant gunner’s mate. Lane enlisted in the United States Navy on August 9, 1940. While in high school, he played on the football team, lettering twice. The family later moved to Newkirk, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Newkirk High School in 1940. Mancel Curtis Lane was born about 1922 in Newton, Kansas to Roscoe C. Kenneth Leroy Dunaway is memorialized on The Tablets of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from Blackwell High School in 1940 and served in the Oklahoma National Guard before enlisting in the United States Navy on October 11, 1940.ĭunaway was serving as an Electrician’s Mate Third Class with the rank of Petty Officer Third Class, on the USS Arizona when it sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Kenneth Leroy Dunaway was born August 26, 1922, the son of John W. Markley Hall, a dormitory at Northern Oklahoma College, is named in his honor. He is buried at Fort Gibson National Cemetery in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Markley was killed in action Decemduring the attack on Pearl Harbor as he was running to his aircraft. Army Air Corps, serving as a pilot for the 26th Bombardment Squadron with a rank of Second Lieutenant at Hickam Field, Hawaii from September 1941. With a passion for flight, he completed the CAA flight training program at Ponca City, and graduated from the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa. He graduated from Nardin High School and Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa. Robert Harold Markley was born July 23, 1920, the son of Arthur H.

Kenneth Leroy Dunaway, 19, of Blackwell.

Roosevelt declared Decem“a date which will live in infamy”.įour Kay County, Oklahoma residents lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor: aircraft were also destroyed.Ī total of 2,403 people were killed, and another 1,178 wounded, in the two-hour attack. Navy battleships anchored in Pearl Harbor that day, all were damaged and four were sunk. Multiple torpedoes pierced the shell of the battleship USS Oklahoma causing her to capsize, trapping over 400 sailors inside as she slipped under water. The ship exploded and sank trapping more than 1,000 men inside. an 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona, landing in her forward ammunition magazine. Bombs and bullets rained down on the base below.Īt 8:10 a.m. the sky over Pearl Harbor filled with Japanese planes - 353 aircraft launched in two waves from six aircraft carriers. On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service carried out a surprise attack on the base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.Īt 7:48 a.m. Daughters of the American Revolution Ponca City Chapter News