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Seaman First Class Elmer Patterson (Photo courtesy of the Navy Personnel Command-Public Affairs Office)
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The remains of Seaman First Class Elmer Patterson Lawrence came back from Hawaii to be buried in Railton, Kentucky, this weekend.
He was stationed on the USS Oklahoma. Family said that he worked overnight into the early hours of December 7, 1941, and went to bed.
