80 years later, a San Diego burial for sailor killed at Pearl Harbor
The request, passed down through the generations, came from a grieving father whose son was missing and presumed dead after the attack at Pearl Harbor.
“It just means closure for us, a chance to say goodbye,” said Paul Beahan, a Los Angeles filmmaker who is Gebser’s great-nephew and is named after him. “It’s what the family always wanted.” He lied about his age to enlist at 17, Beahan said. After 14 years in, he left the service and returned to San Diego to build boats for six years before re-enlisting in 1940.
Gebser’s parents received the letter in early December, within a day or two of the Japanese attack, Beahan said. The death certificate sent to family of Paul Gebser, a San Diego sailor killed at Pearl Harbor whose remains were recently identified.The form reported that he had been killed in action on 12-7-41. Under the section for “Disposition of remains,” it said, “Instructions have been issued to inter locally all bodies recovered” — locally meaning Hawaii.
The rest were classified as “non-recoverable” and commingled, segregated into similar skeletal pieces to reduce the number of caskets required. They were buried in 46 plots at the, a Honolulu graveyard commonly known as Punchbowl for the volcanic crater it occupies. What they received were 61 caskets. Inside each were bundles of bones wrapped in white cloth and fastened with large safety pins. Most of the caskets had five or six bundles, but one had almost two dozen.The contents of the bundles varied. In one casket, nothing but upper arm bones from multiple people. In another, neck vertebrae.
He also used dentures, an upper plate that the anthropologists knew about from his dental chart. A skull that’s missing a dental plate looks different than one that still has teeth or has lost them due to trauma.
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