Korean vet to finally receive proper burial

Dorothy Justiss, left, and her daughter Tammy Richardson look over the family book they put together on the military life of Master Sgt. Olen Berry Williams in Justiss’ Wetumpka home Monday. Williams will be buried in his family’s cemetery in Verbena this Sunday after being declared missing in action and killed in action 63 years ago during the Korean War. Photo by Kevin Taylor

For decades there wasn’t much left but a few memories and a slight glimmer of hope.

The family of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Olen Berry Williams received a letter from the Army on Dec. 12, 1950 that he was missing in action and, on Dec. 31, 1953, he was declared killed in action.