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The remains of a Clearfield native killed during the Korean War will be interred Wednesday, Sept. 6, at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery Annville.
Army Cpl. Francis James Jury was a member of Heavy Mortar Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, when he was reported missing in action Dec. 2, 1950, during battle with enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was 23.
Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war.
Almost 70 years later, Jury's remains were turned over by North Korea on July 27, 2018. He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Feb. 10, 2022, after his remains were identified using circumstantial evidence as well as anthropological and Y chromosome DNA analysis.
His name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission's Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific along with the others still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
More than 7,500 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War.
Kreamer & Lum Funeral Home & Crematory, Jonestown, will perform graveside services preceding the interment.