The U.S. Air Force has granted a request from the widow of Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Luther Rose of Howe to move Rose’s remains from Sherman to Louisiana.

Rose was laid to rest on Aug. 6 in Sherman, decades after his death in Vietnam.

The 33-year old Air Force gunner had been listed as missing in action since June 23, 1966, when his plane was shut down over Laos.

The crash site was located in 1994, but it took much longer to
recover any remains and identify them using DNA and other
records.

His daughter by a first marriage arranged for the burial in Sherman, nine miles north of Howe, but Rose’s second wife and widow, Beverly Rose, said she and her daughter didn’t learn of the burial until reading about it in a Louisiana newspaper.

She contacted the Air Force about moving his grave closer to their home.

KXII TV in Sherman-Denison reports the Air Force has granted a request for Rose's remains to be moved to Louisiana.

The Air force has also declared the Sherman gravesite to be federal property to head off challenges by other family members.