'He is finally home': Effingham County celebrates return of sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack

80 years later, Illinois sailor who died in Pearl Harbor attack will be laid to rest in home state

U.S. Navy Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Keith Tipsword of Illinois will be laid to rest over 80 years after his death. Tipsword died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Illinois sailor who died in Pearl Harbor attack laid to rest

An Illinois sailor who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been laid to rest in his home state more than 80 years after his death.

Illinois sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack finally laid to rest

Decades after Keith Tipsword of Effingham was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack, his remains have been returned home.

Community rallies to honor sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack

Nov. 16—EFFINGHAM — People traveled from all over to honor the memory of Keith Tipsword at his funeral service Tuesday, which began in Effingham and ended at the Moccasin Cemetery. Despite the frigid and rainy weather, friends, family, local residents…

'He is finally home': Effingham County celebrates return of sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack

BEECHER CITY — Rev. Brett Sapp said funerals are typically somber occasions but the one on Tuesday for his uncle, U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class Keith Tipsword, was also

Pearl Harbor sailor returns home through help of DNA testing

More than a hundred crew members died on the USS West Virginia, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.