Keith Tipsword News Today

The Flagman nonprofit and local volunteers lined the funeral procession route for Charles Darling Brown with more than 430 U.S. flags.

ARCOLA, Ill. (WCIA) — More than 80 years after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, a sailor killed in the attack is being laid to rest in his hometown of Arcola. Charles Darling Brown was one of 2,400 Americans killed in the attack that led the U.S. to formally enter World War II. When his remains […]

The Effingham Daily News earned two first place awards and several others during the annual journalism conference hosted by the Illinois Press Association and the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors

Keith Tipsword, who was aboard the USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor, is among dozens of Pearl Harbor veterans who have been identified and brought home to be reburied with loved ones.

Through new DNA techniques, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been able to sort through remains that were long considered unidentifiable.

In a cemetery amid the cornfields of downstate Illinois last month, a military honor guard fired shots in salute before the remains of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword was lowered into the ground.

Its a tragedy that raises its head close to home even now.

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BEECHER CITY — Rev. Brett Sapp said funerals are typically somber occasions but the one on Tuesday for his uncle, U.S. Navy Machinists Mate 1st Class Keith Tipsword, was also

Navy veteran Petty Officer 1st Class Keith Tipsword was 27 when he was killed while serving on the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Tipsword’s remains had been buried as an unknown in Hawaii, but they were identified by DNA testing.