The remains of a Banquete native who died during Pearl Harbor are coming home to the Coastal Bend.
Clyde Clifton McMeans, who died aboard the USS California during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that led to the U.S. joining World War II, will be buried with full military honors at the Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery at 1 p.m. May 1.
McMeans was born in Karnes City, Texas, on April 30, 1915, to Elvarena and Clarence McMeans. He was one of nine children. His siblings, Lee, Ella, Oda, Rosa, Eddie, Clarence, James and Elvarena, have all died. His living nieces and nephews never met him, but learned about him from their parents’ stories. Several members of the family still live in the Coastal Bend…