June 30, 2024
Update from the National Park Service:
BUSHKILL, PA–Yesterday around 7:00 p.m., June 29, 2024, NPS and volunteer search crews recovered the body of 24-year-old Jeysson Ariel Osorio-Reyes from the waters of the Delaware River near Milford Beach within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
24-year-old Jeysson Ariel Osorio-Reyes of Jackson Township, New Jersey. Photo provided by family.
BUSHKILL, PA- National Park Service rangers and dive team members from Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Upper Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River and volunteers from the Milford Fire Department, Milford Ambulance, Port Jervis and Bushkill Dive Teams, and Dingman Township, Sparrowbush, and Huguenot Dive Rescue Teams are engaged in a search for a missing man who was last seen swimming in the Delaware River at Milford Beach on Saturday afternoon around 3:15 pm.
Witnesses on shore saw the 24-year-old Jackson Township, NJ man, Jeysson Ariel Osorio-Reyes, swimming mid-channel in the river, about 75 yards from the PA shoreline, before he disappeared under the water surface.
The combined search crews will continue to scour the Delaware River, both above and below the surface, employing surface searches, teams of divers, and side scan sonar until 7 pm this evening due to storms in the forecast that could affect the safety of rescuers. Search efforts will resume on Sunday morning, pending weather conditions.
Updates from the National Park Service will be provided when they are available.
File photos from the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
June 30, 2024
NORTH HANOVER, NJ (BURLINGTON)–After nearly 74 years, the remains of U.S. Army Soldier Pfc. Anthony J. Lopa, Killed in Action in Korea, 1950, were brought to rest at NJDMAVA’s Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery on June 28, 2024.
The remains of U.S. Army Pfc. Anthony J. Lopa, Delta Battery, 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, were presented in a ceremony at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, New Jersey, June 28, 2024. Lopa, of North Arlington, New Jersey, was killed in action during the Korean War August 31, 1950. His remains were accounted for July 21, 2023.
-New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Remains of Korean War Soldier to be buried in Wrightstown, New Jersey
June 13, 2024
Story by: Fonda Bock, U.S. Army Human Resources Command
FORT KNOX, Ky. – The remains of Army Pfc. Anthony J. Lopa, a Soldier killed during the Korean War, will be interred June 28 at Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veteran Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, New Jersey. Maxwell Funeral Home, Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, will perform graveside services preceding the interment.
A native of North Arlington, New Jersey, Lopa was a member of Delta Battery, 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (Self Propelled) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was killed in action Aug. 31, 1950, while fighting the North Korean People’s Army along the Naktong River, near Yongsan-Myeon, South Korea. He was 17 years old.
Lopa was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency July 21, 2023, after the remains of Korean War unknowns were exhumed for identification July 2018 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Past Conflict Repatriations Branch, under the Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Operations Division at U.S. Army Human Resources Command, Fort Knox, Kentucky, plays a key role in the process of locating Family members of missing Soldiers from World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars.
The process begins with locating the Family member most closely related to the missing Soldier, known as the primary next of kin, followed by a request for Family reference samples or DNA, which are used as a main source in identifying remains.
Once a Soldier has been identified by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, the PCRB notifies and briefs the Family about the results of historical, forensic and DNA reports, benefits and the mortuary process including burial with full military honors.
U.S. Army Pfc. Anthony J. Lopa, Delta Battery, 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, remains were presented in a ceremony at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, New Jersey, June 28, 2024. Lopa, of North Arlington, New Jersey, was killed in action during the Korean War on August 31, 1950, remains were accounted for July 21, 2023. (U.S. Army National Guard photos by Sgt. Michael Schwenk)