TROPHY CLUB (May 24, 2009)--The sister of a Navy petty officer who was believed killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor is awaiting the results of DNA tests that may identify her brother's remains more than six decades after the raid that pulled the U.S. into World War II.

Earlier this month, Meryl Patton, 88, who lives in the North Texas town of Trophy Club near Fort Worth was contacted by the U.S. Navy's casualty office for a DNA sample.

Patton's brother Starring Winfield was a 22-year-old petty officer third class in the Navy stationed on the USS Oklahoma when Japanese torpedo bombers fired on the ships along "Battleship Row."

The remains of 44 sailors who couldn't be identified are buried as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, but in the last six years the government has started using mitochondrial DNA to try to identify the men.

It is unknown how long it will take to get the results from Meryl Patton.