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U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye is finally home from Pearl Harbor and was laid to rest last week in North ...
Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, will be buried with military honors Thursday at the state veterans cemetery in Spring Lake. In later wars, families ...
The service was held on April 3--which is his birthday. Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye was 20 years old when he died and was serving in a segregated branch. Frye worked in the Messman Branch ...
Mary Frye McCrimmon, the youngest of 10 children, does recall Neil Frye being caring enough to build a sled for her. One year, Neil got her a tricycle. “My sister Judy, she used to tell me he ...
After more than eight decades, a Vass man killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 has come home. Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye was aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia on ...
Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye, killed at Pearl Harbor, was recently buried in North Carolina 84 years after his death. Frye's remains were identified through DNA analysis and returned ...
An American sailor has been laid to rest with full military honors in his home state 84 years after he was killed at Pearl ...
After nearly 84 years, U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye is finally home from Pearl Harbor and was laid to rest last week in North Carolina. Frye was only 20-years-old when he died ...
Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Black sailor is buried with military honors this week. For his family, it's long awaited closure.
A 20-year-old Black sailor was buried with military honors this week. WUNC's Jay Price has the story of Neil Frye. JAY PRICE, BYLINE: In later wars, there would have been a uniformed notification ...