A Weymouth native who was killed in World War Two and missing in action for the past 81 years is finally coming home.
The remains of Private Alfred Langevin were recently identified after being found in Germany.
Weymouth Veterans Service Director George Pontes says that DNA identified Private Langevin. His body is coming home today (Saturday).
Residents will have opportunities Sunday and Monday to honor Weymouth’s war hero. He will lay in state Sunday from from noon to 3 p.m. at Weymouth Town Hall.
On Monday morning between 10 and 11 a.m., residents are asked to line the funeral procession route from the McDonald Keohane Funeral Home on Main Street to Pleasant Street, to Broad Street, then to Fairmount Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Weymouth where he will be buried with his family with full military honors.