Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, June 30, 2021

It’s almost the 4th of July and the PC Museum was in full patriot mode this week.

The Museum was honored to help a foundation find information on a serviceman. The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation’s mission is to help identify remains of soldiers killed in action so that they can be properly buried.

Obtaining samples of DNA of living relatives is critical to this effort. Currently, there are 1,100 boxes of unidentified remains in a warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Our quest was to help find living relatives of Cpl. Albert Lee Rasmussen who was born in Malta. He was killed in the Battle of Tarawa. His mother was Julia Lucille Booen and his grandmother was Christine Matson.

With genealogy resources and obituary copies, the Museum was able to share information with the Foundation. Later we received an email saying siblings had been located! What a great feeling that was – celebrate the red, white, and blue!

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