The remains of Army Cpl. Richard Seloover, who was killed during the Korean War, will be buried with full military honors June 4 at Coloma Township Cemetery in Rock Falls, Ill.

Seloover, a native of Whiteside, Ill., was a member of Heavy Mortar Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He went missing in action Sept. 6, 1950, at age 17, after his unit engaged in enemy combat along the Naktong River in the vicinity of Yongsan, South Korea.

Seloover was accounted Jan. 10, 2024, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, after his remains were exhumed June 2021 for laboratory analysis from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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