Gilroy veteran’s remains buried after 74 years

Gilroy resident Frank Louis Masoni died in combat just two days after landing with the U.S. Marine Corps at Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific in November 1943. Nearly three-quarters of a century later, in the summer of 2017, his remains were positively identified by military officials, and his South County descendants will finally get to bury him.
About a hundred people gathered Friday at Habing Family Funeral Home in Gilroy to honor his memory.
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