Pearl Harbor Commemoration to Continue, Despite Death of Last Survivor in Inland Northwest

From the December 6, 2019, Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) "Pearl Harbor commemoration to continue in Inland Northwest despite deaths of aging survivors" by Kip Hill.

The death of Ray Garland, 96, the last surviving survivor in April this year will not stop the commemoration of the event.

The Lilac City Chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association living in the Spokane  and north Idaho area once numbered near 100 members.  They would travel to schools, churches, bookstores to talk about their experiences.

For years, Vina Mikkelsen, 88, has been organizing these commemorations on behalf of her husband Denis, a U.S. navy radioman at Pearl Harbor on the USS West Virginia, who died in 2013.

And They Go On.  --GreGen