CLINTON COUNTY — A Trenton sailor lost on “The Day of Infamy” is returning home to Clinton County. The remains of Navy electrician’s mate 3rd Class William “Billy” Klasing are coming back to Trenton 78 years after he was killed with 429 others during the Japanese torpedo attack on the Battleship USS Oklahoma.

Klasing’s remains were officially identified in February and for his niece, Linda Klasing Rakers, it was a day she never saw coming.

Klasing’s remains will be greeted by anyone who wants to line the highways from New Baden to Trenton. The motorcade will reach Route 161 in New Baden around 4 p.m., then travel northward to Trenton on Route 160, before moving east on Old Route 50 to Breese’s Moss Funeral Home.

Rakers when asked how she felt after receiving the call that the remains had been found.

There will be another chance to welcome Klasing home Saturday morning when his remains are transported from the Trenton branch of Moss Funeral Home and taken to Trenton City Cemetery between 10:45 and 11 a.m.