U S ARMY TRANSPORT
LT GEORGE W BOYCE

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The last document from the Correspondence section flows into Coming Home.

This letter is below and in the fourth paragraph are the words :

" remains of your son to rest permanently in an overseas cemetery "

Mr Shiber and his daughters, Mary Agnes and Emma Louise,
made the decision to change his burial location
to Long Island National Cemetery.

Mary Agnes and her husband Joseph Batvinis, Jr, lived in Islip, Long Island.

Their home was a short distance from the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale.

This information provided by Ray Batvinis

 

Beneath the letter are two pages from the form Request for Disposition of Remains.
At the bottom of the first page is the handwritten notatation

' Prev coded Unk X-386 for Ft McKinley Cemetery Manila '

Had Mr. Shiber not changed his mind, his son would have been buried there.
This document is signed 6 January 1949

Sgt Shiber's disinterment at Yokohama had taken place on 13 December 1948.
The Disinterment Directive was updated on 15 March 1949
for his remains to be buried at Long Island.

By 20 December 1948 his remains were at the
American Graves Registration Service ( AGRS ) facility at the port in Yokohama.

They were placed on the USAT Lt George Boyce
21 May 1949 and transported to Fort Mason, San Francisco, arriving 6 June 1949.

From there his remains were transported by rail to
Distribution Center 1 ( DC-1) at Brooklyn, New York.

LETTER FROM MAJOR JAMES F SMITH, MEMORIAL DIVISION,
TO
MR URBAN SHIBER
20 DECEMBER 1948

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REQUEST FOR DISPOSITION OF REMAINS
20 DECEMBER 1948
PAGE 1

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REQUEST FOR DISPOSITION OF REMAINS
20 DECEMBER 1948
PAGE 2

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DISINTERMENT DIRECTIVE
REPORT DATE 15 MARCH 1949
DISINTERMENT DATE 13 DECEMBER 1948

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RECORD OF CUSTODIAL TRANSFER

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