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Photo Gallery: Corp. Pryor Gobble Comes Home
Honor guards await Corp. Pryor Gobble, who was killed during the Korean War, as his body is brought to Mentor
The body of Army Corp. Pryor Gobble returned to the continental United States 62 years after he went missing in action during the Korean War.
Gobble's remains were flown into Cleveland Hopkins Airport Sunday afternoon and escorted to .
His funeral will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Gobble will be buried, with full military honors, immediately after in Concord Township Cemetery.
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Gobble has been missing since Dec. 12, 1950.
He joined the Army when he was 17 years old and 18 when he disappeared near Hagaru-ri, North Korea.
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His surviving siblings -- Glenn Gobble and Bernice Yeary, who both live in Mentor -- were informed recently that their brother's remains had been identified after more than 60 years of not knowing his fate.
The U.S. government received Gobble's body from the North Koreans in 1994. However, it took several years to confirm his identity.
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