HUMMELSTOWN, Pa. – A Dauphin County veteran who had been presumed missing during the Korean War was laid to rest Saturday.
Corporal Kenneth Stuck was declared missing after one of the first battles of the Korean War in 1950. Last November, his remaining family learned that his remains had been identified, and on Saturday, they buried him with full military honors.
“We had hoped one day maybe they would see his remains come home and it’s here,” Barbara Bowser, Cpl. Stuck’s niece, said. “It’s always been in the back of our mind. We grew up knowing that Uncle Ken was missing in action, would we ever hear anything, and all those years went by.”
The military presented Stuck’s family with several posthumous honors at Saturday’s ceremony, thanking them for his service and proud to help bring him home.
“I knew my uncle through all my dad’s stories, of him sharing those with us, of everything he did with his brother as a child, so he got to share all those with us, pictures I’ve seen of him, I feel like I knew him,” Philip Stuck, Cpl. Stuck’s nephew, said.
