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He’s coming home! After 69 years missing during the Korean War, Corporal Jackey D. Blosser, 21 of Pickens, WV (Randolph County) will be laid to rest at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton, WV on Friday, July 31, 2020.
CPL Blosser was born August 31, 1929 in Parsons, WV and was the son of the late William Henry Blosser and Minnie Edna (Schoonover) Blosser of Montrose, WV. He was the 11th of fourteen children. He is survived by one sister, Bonnie Shingleton of Flat Rock, Michigan and numerous nieces and nephews. Following CPL Blosser in death were 5 brothers, Wilford Blosser, Montrose, WV, James Willard Blosser, Elkins, WV, William Junior Blosser, Colfax, WV, Billie Blosser, Weston, WV, and Sam Blosser, Parsons, WV, 7 sisters, Mildred Hansford, Parsons, WV, Pauline Miller, Gilman, WV, Juanita Martin, Parsons, WV, Rosella Simmons, Parsons, WV, Betty Hull, Buckhannon, WV, Georgia McDaniels, Grafton, WV and Wanda Newman, GA.
CPL Blosser entered the U.S. Army September 14, 1948 and served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He went missing in action on December 2, 1950, after Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked his unit during their withdrawal from the Pungnyuri Inlet to Hagaruri, North Korea, during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. The exact details of his loss are unknown. In 2018, the North Korean government turned over fifty-five boxes containing the remains of U.S. service members, including one that contained remains reportedly recovered from Sinhungri in the South Hamgyong Province of North Korea, near where CPL Blosser went missing. U.S. analysts with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) used laboratory analyses and circumstantial evidence to identify CPL Blosser from among these collective remains, and his family was notified on November 12, 2019.
CPL Blosser’s medals and ribbons include a Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, United Nations Service Medal, Republic of Korea War Service Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. He is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Due to the COVID-19 guidelines, a private funeral service will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church in Grafton on Friday, July 31, 2020 from 8:00:-9:30 a.m. with Army Chaplin Joe Ward officiating.
Interment will follow at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton at 10:00 a.m. Military honors will be conducted by the US Army Honor Guard from Camp Dawson.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency by logging onto: https://www.dpaa.mil/Contact/Donate-to-the-Mission/ Contributions assist the DPAA as they continue to recover and identify service members missing from World Wars I & II, Korea and Vietnam.
Summerville resident's family member identified among remains returned by North Korea
For 69 years the family of Cpl. Jackey Dale Blosser did not know his fate when he was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950 after the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, his family received word that his remains were among those identified in Hawaii who were returned to the United States by North Korea after an agreement between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. His remains had been in Hawaii since August 2018.
Connie Posey of Summerville said that she was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing the news.
She said that she is ready to travel to her home in West Virginia to celebrate his return with the rest of her family.
Blosser, known to his family as Jack, was born into a large family of 14 children in Parsons, West Virginia, in 1929. He joined the Army in 1948 and was reported as Missiong-In-Action three months after his 21st birthday and this was changed to Killed-In-Action in 1953.
Blosser was identified using the DNA of his brother and two of his sisters, which were stored away. According to the Military Times there are two types of DNA that can be extracted from remains, mitochondrial and nuclear. DNA matching can often be difficult as nuclear DNA is often difficult to obtain and mitochondrial DNA can often match among several different people.
Posey said that she is excited that her family finally has some closure and said she wishes that her father was still alive so that he could hear the news.
“I just wish my dad was still here to know we found his remains,” Posey said.
It is estimated that of the 55 boxes of remains that were returned by North Korea in 2018 there could be as many as 50-100 servicemen who could be identified by DNA.
As of today there are 7,800 soldiers who are unaccounted for from the Korean War, and nearly 1,100 from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir alone.
From the Summerville Journal Scene Nov. 14, 2019
He’s coming home! After 69 years missing during the Korean War, Corporal Jackey D. Blosser, 21 of Pickens, WV (Randolph County) will be laid to rest at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton, WV on Friday, July 31, 2020.
CPL Blosser was born August 31, 1929 in Parsons, WV and was the son of the late William Henry Blosser and Minnie Edna (Schoonover) Blosser of Montrose, WV. He was the 11th of fourteen children. He is survived by one sister, Bonnie Shingleton of Flat Rock, Michigan and numerous nieces and nephews. Following CPL Blosser in death were 5 brothers, Wilford Blosser, Montrose, WV, James Willard Blosser, Elkins, WV, William Junior Blosser, Colfax, WV, Billie Blosser, Weston, WV, and Sam Blosser, Parsons, WV, 7 sisters, Mildred Hansford, Parsons, WV, Pauline Miller, Gilman, WV, Juanita Martin, Parsons, WV, Rosella Simmons, Parsons, WV, Betty Hull, Buckhannon, WV, Georgia McDaniels, Grafton, WV and Wanda Newman, GA.
CPL Blosser entered the U.S. Army September 14, 1948 and served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He went missing in action on December 2, 1950, after Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked his unit during their withdrawal from the Pungnyuri Inlet to Hagaruri, North Korea, during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. The exact details of his loss are unknown. In 2018, the North Korean government turned over fifty-five boxes containing the remains of U.S. service members, including one that contained remains reportedly recovered from Sinhungri in the South Hamgyong Province of North Korea, near where CPL Blosser went missing. U.S. analysts with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) used laboratory analyses and circumstantial evidence to identify CPL Blosser from among these collective remains, and his family was notified on November 12, 2019.
CPL Blosser’s medals and ribbons include a Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, United Nations Service Medal, Republic of Korea War Service Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. He is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Due to the COVID-19 guidelines, a private funeral service will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church in Grafton on Friday, July 31, 2020 from 8:00:-9:30 a.m. with Army Chaplin Joe Ward officiating.
Interment will follow at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton at 10:00 a.m. Military honors will be conducted by the US Army Honor Guard from Camp Dawson.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency by logging onto: https://www.dpaa.mil/Contact/Donate-to-the-Mission/ Contributions assist the DPAA as they continue to recover and identify service members missing from World Wars I & II, Korea and Vietnam.
Summerville resident's family member identified among remains returned by North Korea
For 69 years the family of Cpl. Jackey Dale Blosser did not know his fate when he was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950 after the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, his family received word that his remains were among those identified in Hawaii who were returned to the United States by North Korea after an agreement between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. His remains had been in Hawaii since August 2018.
Connie Posey of Summerville said that she was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing the news.
She said that she is ready to travel to her home in West Virginia to celebrate his return with the rest of her family.
Blosser, known to his family as Jack, was born into a large family of 14 children in Parsons, West Virginia, in 1929. He joined the Army in 1948 and was reported as Missiong-In-Action three months after his 21st birthday and this was changed to Killed-In-Action in 1953.
Blosser was identified using the DNA of his brother and two of his sisters, which were stored away. According to the Military Times there are two types of DNA that can be extracted from remains, mitochondrial and nuclear. DNA matching can often be difficult as nuclear DNA is often difficult to obtain and mitochondrial DNA can often match among several different people.
Posey said that she is excited that her family finally has some closure and said she wishes that her father was still alive so that he could hear the news.
“I just wish my dad was still here to know we found his remains,” Posey said.
It is estimated that of the 55 boxes of remains that were returned by North Korea in 2018 there could be as many as 50-100 servicemen who could be identified by DNA.
As of today there are 7,800 soldiers who are unaccounted for from the Korean War, and nearly 1,100 from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir alone.
From the Summerville Journal Scene Nov. 14, 2019
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He’s coming home! After 69 years missing during the Korean War, Corporal Jackey D. Blosser, 21 of Pickens, WV (Randolph County) will be laid to rest at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton, WV on Friday, July 31, 2020.
CPL Blosser was born August 31, 1929 in Parsons, WV and was the son of the late William Henry Blosser and Minnie Edna (Schoonover) Blosser of Montrose, WV. He was the 11th of fourteen children. He is survived by one sister, Bonnie Shingleton of Flat Rock, Michigan and numerous nieces and nephews. Following CPL Blosser in death were 5 brothers, Wilford Blosser, Montrose, WV, James Willard Blosser, Elkins, WV, William Junior Blosser, Colfax, WV, Billie Blosser, Weston, WV, and Sam Blosser, Parsons, WV, 7 sisters, Mildred Hansford, Parsons, WV, Pauline Miller, Gilman, WV, Juanita Martin, Parsons, WV, Rosella Simmons, Parsons, WV, Betty Hull, Buckhannon, WV, Georgia McDaniels, Grafton, WV and Wanda Newman, GA.
CPL Blosser entered the U.S. Army September 14, 1948 and served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He went missing in action on December 2, 1950, after Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked his unit during their withdrawal from the Pungnyuri Inlet to Hagaruri, North Korea, during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. The exact details of his loss are unknown. In 2018, the North Korean government turned over fifty-five boxes containing the remains of U.S. service members, including one that contained remains reportedly recovered from Sinhungri in the South Hamgyong Province of North Korea, near where CPL Blosser went missing. U.S. analysts with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) used laboratory analyses and circumstantial evidence to identify CPL Blosser from among these collective remains, and his family was notified on November 12, 2019.
CPL Blosser’s medals and ribbons include a Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, United Nations Service Medal, Republic of Korea War Service Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. He is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Due to the COVID-19 guidelines, a private funeral service will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church in Grafton on Friday, July 31, 2020 from 8:00:-9:30 a.m. with Army Chaplin Joe Ward officiating.
Interment will follow at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton at 10:00 a.m. Military honors will be conducted by the US Army Honor Guard from Camp Dawson.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency by logging onto: https://www.dpaa.mil/Contact/Donate-to-the-Mission/ Contributions assist the DPAA as they continue to recover and identify service members missing from World Wars I & II, Korea and Vietnam.
Summerville resident's family member identified among remains returned by North Korea
For 69 years the family of Cpl. Jackey Dale Blosser did not know his fate when he was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950 after the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, his family received word that his remains were among those identified in Hawaii who were returned to the United States by North Korea after an agreement between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. His remains had been in Hawaii since August 2018.
Connie Posey of Summerville said that she was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing the news.
She said that she is ready to travel to her home in West Virginia to celebrate his return with the rest of her family.
Blosser, known to his family as Jack, was born into a large family of 14 children in Parsons, West Virginia, in 1929. He joined the Army in 1948 and was reported as Missiong-In-Action three months after his 21st birthday and this was changed to Killed-In-Action in 1953.
Blosser was identified using the DNA of his brother and two of his sisters, which were stored away. According to the Military Times there are two types of DNA that can be extracted from remains, mitochondrial and nuclear. DNA matching can often be difficult as nuclear DNA is often difficult to obtain and mitochondrial DNA can often match among several different people.
Posey said that she is excited that her family finally has some closure and said she wishes that her father was still alive so that he could hear the news.
“I just wish my dad was still here to know we found his remains,” Posey said.
It is estimated that of the 55 boxes of remains that were returned by North Korea in 2018 there could be as many as 50-100 servicemen who could be identified by DNA.
As of today there are 7,800 soldiers who are unaccounted for from the Korean War, and nearly 1,100 from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir alone.
From the Summerville Journal Scene Nov. 14, 2019
He’s coming home! After 69 years missing during the Korean War, Corporal Jackey D. Blosser, 21 of Pickens, WV (Randolph County) will be laid to rest at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton, WV on Friday, July 31, 2020.
CPL Blosser was born August 31, 1929 in Parsons, WV and was the son of the late William Henry Blosser and Minnie Edna (Schoonover) Blosser of Montrose, WV. He was the 11th of fourteen children. He is survived by one sister, Bonnie Shingleton of Flat Rock, Michigan and numerous nieces and nephews. Following CPL Blosser in death were 5 brothers, Wilford Blosser, Montrose, WV, James Willard Blosser, Elkins, WV, William Junior Blosser, Colfax, WV, Billie Blosser, Weston, WV, and Sam Blosser, Parsons, WV, 7 sisters, Mildred Hansford, Parsons, WV, Pauline Miller, Gilman, WV, Juanita Martin, Parsons, WV, Rosella Simmons, Parsons, WV, Betty Hull, Buckhannon, WV, Georgia McDaniels, Grafton, WV and Wanda Newman, GA.
CPL Blosser entered the U.S. Army September 14, 1948 and served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He went missing in action on December 2, 1950, after Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked his unit during their withdrawal from the Pungnyuri Inlet to Hagaruri, North Korea, during the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. The exact details of his loss are unknown. In 2018, the North Korean government turned over fifty-five boxes containing the remains of U.S. service members, including one that contained remains reportedly recovered from Sinhungri in the South Hamgyong Province of North Korea, near where CPL Blosser went missing. U.S. analysts with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) used laboratory analyses and circumstantial evidence to identify CPL Blosser from among these collective remains, and his family was notified on November 12, 2019.
CPL Blosser’s medals and ribbons include a Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, United Nations Service Medal, Republic of Korea War Service Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. He is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Due to the COVID-19 guidelines, a private funeral service will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church in Grafton on Friday, July 31, 2020 from 8:00:-9:30 a.m. with Army Chaplin Joe Ward officiating.
Interment will follow at the WV National Cemetery in Grafton at 10:00 a.m. Military honors will be conducted by the US Army Honor Guard from Camp Dawson.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency by logging onto: https://www.dpaa.mil/Contact/Donate-to-the-Mission/ Contributions assist the DPAA as they continue to recover and identify service members missing from World Wars I & II, Korea and Vietnam.
Summerville resident's family member identified among remains returned by North Korea
For 69 years the family of Cpl. Jackey Dale Blosser did not know his fate when he was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950 after the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, his family received word that his remains were among those identified in Hawaii who were returned to the United States by North Korea after an agreement between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. His remains had been in Hawaii since August 2018.
Connie Posey of Summerville said that she was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing the news.
She said that she is ready to travel to her home in West Virginia to celebrate his return with the rest of her family.
Blosser, known to his family as Jack, was born into a large family of 14 children in Parsons, West Virginia, in 1929. He joined the Army in 1948 and was reported as Missiong-In-Action three months after his 21st birthday and this was changed to Killed-In-Action in 1953.
Blosser was identified using the DNA of his brother and two of his sisters, which were stored away. According to the Military Times there are two types of DNA that can be extracted from remains, mitochondrial and nuclear. DNA matching can often be difficult as nuclear DNA is often difficult to obtain and mitochondrial DNA can often match among several different people.
Posey said that she is excited that her family finally has some closure and said she wishes that her father was still alive so that he could hear the news.
“I just wish my dad was still here to know we found his remains,” Posey said.
It is estimated that of the 55 boxes of remains that were returned by North Korea in 2018 there could be as many as 50-100 servicemen who could be identified by DNA.
As of today there are 7,800 soldiers who are unaccounted for from the Korean War, and nearly 1,100 from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir alone.
From the Summerville Journal Scene Nov. 14, 2019
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Corporal, U.S. Army, Korea
Killed in Action
Purple Heart
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Wilfred Thomas "Wilf" Blosser
1913–1993
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Mildred Louise Blosser Hansford
1914–1983
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James Willard Blosser Sr
1916–1993
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William Junior Blosser
1918–2001
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Pauline Virginia Blosser Miller
1920–1985
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Juanita Ruth Blosser Martin
1921–1991
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Rosella Pearl "Rose" Blosser Simmons
1923–2009
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Betty Lee Blosser Hull
1924–2011
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Georgia Marie "Georgie" Blosser McDaniels
1926–2017
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Billie Eugene Blosser
1928–2017
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CPL Jackey Dale Blosser
1929–1950
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Wanda Jean Blosser Newman
1931–2002
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Samuel Bruce Blosser Sr
1938–2007
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