It's a story you will only see on Erie News Now, a special funeral celebration on Monday in Warren County after the remains of a local WWII veteran were found, and returned to family.

Corporal Glenn Hodak was 23 years-old when he died in a Tokyo prisoner of war camp in 1945, has finally made it home, nearly 80 years after his death.

The Springcreek Cemetery is the final resting spot for Glenn Hodak. The service, in front of a near capacity gathering at the Free Methodist Church in Youngsville, was filled with emotion.


His nephew, Dennis Hodak represented the immediate family and said his passionate good bye. Another relative, Colonel Jeremy Folks has spent nearly three decades in the U.S. Air force. He flew in from Germany to say good bye to his Uncle Glenn.


Corporal Hodak served as a tail gunner on board, a B-29, super fortress, nicknamed "Tall in the Saddle".

Eight decades after his death, he's riding high again.