Memorial Tribute Schedule For Markesan Sailor Killed At Pearl Harbor
3 November 2021 News
Posted on Facebook by the Markesan Police Department on 11/2/21:
A time to honor the life of WWII Hero Navy 1st Class Keefe Connolly. On behalf of the Abendroth-Connolly American Legion Post 282 and the City of Markesan we ask that you please consider showing your respect and honor to the late Navy 1st Class Keefe Connolly a Markesan native who was killed in Pearl Harbor on the USS Oklahoma. On Monday, November 8, 2021 there will be a memorial service for Navy 1st Class Keefe Connolly held at the Markesan Middle School Gym at 100 E. Vista Blvd, Markesan at 11:00am. Parking for the service will be in the middle school parking lot right in front of the entrance to the middle school/district office. A parking attendant will be in the parking lot the morning of the service. The middle school doors will open at 10:00am, ushers will be on hand to assist the public. The service will conclude at approximately 11:45am with a processional to the Markesan Memorial Cemetery beginning at 12:00pm. The procession will leave the Markesan Middle School and travel down East Vista Blvd and then turn left and travel south on Margaret Street turning right onto Manchester Street where it will travel west until the procession enters into the new cemetery on the north side of Manchester Street. The community is urged to line the processional route to show your respect and honor to Keefe Connolly and his family. The public is welcome and invited to park in the parking lot of the old Arctic Cat dealership located at 77 S. Margaret Street, this is located directly across from the Shell Gas Station. There will be a brief graveside service with the Navy conducting the service at the cemetery. Those that wish to view the graveside service can walk to the cemetery from the processional route or there will be an overflow parking area at the Markesan Wastewater Treatment Plant which is located right next to the cemetery.
Remains Of Markesan Soldier Returned To Wisconsin
Posted on the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Facebook page 10/29/21:
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office was honored on Friday, October 29, 2021, to participate in the dignified transfer of remains of the late Keefe R. Connolly. Navy Hospital Apprentice 1st Class Connolly, a native of Markesan, was just 19 when he, along with 428 other crewmen of the USS Oklahoma was killed when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941.Connolly is the most recent of a number of Wisconsinites killed during World War II and interred elsewhere to be identified through forensic testing by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). His name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at the Punchbowl Crater, in Honolulu, Hawaii, along with others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Veterans from the Abendroth-Connolly American Legion Post 282 in Markesan were on hand for today’s dignified transfer. Connolly will be buried Monday, Nov. 8 in his hometown. We are grateful to Hospital Apprentice 1st Class Connolly for his sacrifice. May he rest in peace, and may his memory be a blessing to his loved ones. (Two photos follow from Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office)
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