MEADVILLE —
The remains of an area military veteran missing for more than 60 years are coming home to Crawford County for burial.
Army Sgt. Chester L. Williams, missing from the Korean War, is due to have interment in Meadville on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office in Arlington, Va.
Full details on Williams still are to be released by the U.S. Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, but spokeswoman Maj. Carie Parker confirmed Tuesday the remains are to be interred in Meadville at the end of the month.
Fred Cunningham, director of the Crawford County Veterans Services Office, said he’s scheduled to meet with Army officials today about arrangements for Williams’ interment.
Tribune attempts to contact Clifford Williams, a nephew of Sgt. Williams, were unsuccessful Tuesday.
Preliminary information Cunningham provided to a Tribune reporter about Sgt. Williams indicates he died Dec. 6, 1950, while being held as a prisoner of war in Korea. Williams was age 32 at the time of his death, Cunningham said.
Interment arrangements are being handled by Robert W. Waid Funeral Home of Meadville, Cunningham said. Interment is scheduled Sept. 30 at Greendale Cemetery, he said.
Williams’ planned interment is the second such notification by the U.S. Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office in less than a week.
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward J. (Jimmy) Broms Jr. of Meadville, a pilot who was missing in action in the Vietnam War, was laid to final rest Friday with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.
His remains were positively identified one year ago — Sept. 12, 2011, after being reanalyzed by scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Parker said.
Remains from where Broms’ plane crashed were recovered from Vietnam in 1993, but, those remains could not be positively identified in 1993 given the DNA technology at that time, according to Parker.
Keith Gushard can be reached at 724-6370 or by email at kgushard@meadvilletribune.com.
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