Obit of Arnold, Everett (a654) - Unknown County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 18 Aug 2004 Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== EVERETT ARNOLD Published on April 13, 1997 The Santa Rosa Press Democratt Everett "Hap" Arnold, a World War II prisoner whose son was held captive years later in North Korea's seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo, died Thursday in Santa Rosa. He was 78. Arnold's wife Trola said she knows of only one other U.S. case where a father and son were prisoners of war. Arnold was born in Oklahoma and moved to Santa Rosa in 1937, where he worked for auto dealer Talmadge "Babe" Wood. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a crewman aboard a bomber. After his B-24 was shot down over Europe in 1944, Arnold spent 13 months in a prisoner of war camp in Austria. He was nicknamed "Hap" after World War II Gen. H.H. "Hap" Arnold, who retired in Sonoma. The two were unrelated. Arnold later ran a TV repair shop in Santa Rosa. In 1968, Arnold's son Richard and the rest of the crew of the surveillance vessel U.S.S. Pueblo were captured by North Korea. The crew members were interrogated and tortured before being released 11 months later. In 1989, Richard Arnold was awarded the Prisoner of War medal. Besides his wife and son, Everett Arnold is survived by two sisters, Ola Rinehart of Oklahoma and Uldina White of Oregon, and a brother, Lindy Arnold of Oklahoma. Also surviving are five grandchildren. Everett Arnold was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the organization of former U.S. prisoners of war. Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Daniels Chapel of the Roses in Santa Rosa. Interment will be at Santa Rosa Memorial Park. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html