Home at last: Kapaun hearse pauses to visit parents graves
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Kansas town gathers to remember Korean War hero Father Emil Kapaun with tears, songs and memories
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By MIINDY KEPFIELD
Staff writer
Father Emil Kapaun’s extraordinary life will be honored with a funeral Mass at Wichita arena, but his family wanted to return him home first.
His remains will be flown from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Eisenhower Airport, where a procession will escort them to St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, in Pilsen, where Kapaun grew up.
“When I found out I broke down,” longtime Kapaun Museum volunteer Harriet Bina said. “Right now I am so thrilled. I know that’s what his mother had prayed for…for a long time. And I didn’t think that would happen for a while.”