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  • WV soldier, killed 73 years ago, finally coming home to be laid to rest

    11/29/2017 2:54:50 PM PST · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Charleston Gazette ^ | Nov. 29, 2017 | Lori Kersey Staff writer
    Helen Francisco was just 3 years old when her older brother, Shirley “Eugene” Bailey, died in World War II. He was one of 12 children in the family’s home on the West Side of Charleston. He and two other brothers were drafted into the Army and fought in Germany at the same time. Francisco was too young to remember her brother, but she can still remember her mother’s fight to bring him home after his remains went unaccounted for after the war. “I was little but I can remember her writing to everyone,” she said. “She never gave up looking...