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Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution was Proud to Honor this
American Hero with the North Texas Patriot Guard Riders
Bobby Ray King went to war more than 60 years ago and never came home.
His parents and immediate relatives died without knowing what happened to the 19-year-old with the gap-toothed grin,
and King became a footnote in family history.
But the military didn't forget.
"You don't leave a fallen American behind," according to the Joint P0OW/M IA Accounting Command's website. "The families deserve an answer."
King's surviving family members got theirs a few weeks ago when they were notified that the Korean War veteran had been
buried in an anonymous grave in Hawaii for decades.
Now, his niece, a great-niece and a handful of distant relatives await his return home, where he will be reburied at Dallas-Fort Worth National
Cemetery with full military honors.
"What the Army has done is just amazing," said Danna Yeates, King's great-niece.
She never met King, and her mother was only 2 when he was killed in 1950, but Yeates said tears welled up in
family members' eyes when they were presented with King's Purple Heart medal.
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Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. McKinney Chapter No. 63. [Bobby Ray King memorial], text, December 7, 2012; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1831991/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.