The last Pearl Harbor survivor in Kansas City has died

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The man believed to be the last Kansas City-area resident to survive the attack at Pearl Harbor has died.

WDAF-TV reports that 96-year-old Dorwin Lamkin of Overland Park, Kansas, died March 17. A cause of death was not disclosed.

Born in Wisconsin, Lamkin joined the Navy in 1940. He was a corpsman on the battleship Nevada when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.

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Lamkin later served at several battles while on the heavy cruiser San Francisco in 1943 and 1944. He was awarded several medals and citations.

He was the longtime president of a chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association and helped lead the drive to create the Pearl Harbor Memorial Park in Mission, Kansas.

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