The Worthington Times

Sometime after Alfred's mother received the telegram (pictured below - it was on display last Saturday at the VFW) that Alfred had been lost, he was buried as an unknown in Hawaii.

Mr. Ray Emory, the man who was able to positively identify Livingston's remains, thus making his return home possible, attended the memorial service and I later was able to speak with him.

Mr. Emory is himself a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack and for many years, he has been working on identifying these unknowns.  It's a long and tedious process, like putting a puzzle together.

Alfred is the fourth Pearl Harbor unknown that Emory has been able to identify.  He said this work is something that just got hold of him and he can't let it go.  And so after he returns to Hawaii, he'll continue on with hope that he'll be able to identify more of the hundreds of unknowns from the attack.

Mr. Emory shared several pictures from Hawaii with me and so I took pictures of his pictures to share here.

The first of these below is the picture he took of Alfred's grave in Hawaii, marked unknown.  This was the place where Alfred's remains have been all these years.

The next picture below is one I took of Mr. Emory standing with Livingston family members.  On the left is Jerry Price, Mr. Emory is in the center, Ken Livingston stands on the right.

The next two pictures are Mr. Emory's, first of a worker carefully removing sod from Alfred's grave in preparation for his remains to be exhumed, and next of the military pallbearers preparing to carry Alfred out of the cemetery in Hawaii.

Thanks to Mr. Emory for these photos.