SAN DIEGO -- On Dec. 7, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor will be buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. It will be an especially poignant day for three sisters and their family members who live in La Jolla, California.
They are the granddaughters of Daniel Fletcher Harris, chief fire controlman of the Oklahoma battleship, one of the first bombed when Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Harris, born in 1901 in South Carolina, was stationed at the Naval Training Station San Diego in 1937 when he was assigned to serve on the Oklahoma. He left behind his wife, Aino, and a 2-year-old daughter, Joyce, who later graduated from Helix High School.
