HANCOCK, Mich. >> Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered that U.S. flags be lowered statewide to honor an Upper Peninsula sailor who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Flags are to be lowered today for U.S. Navy Fireman 3rd Class Gerald Lehman. He died just shy of his 18th birthday and was buried as an unknown in Hawaii until DNA recently identified him.

The flag lowering coincides with a funeral mass today in Hancock and burial in Houghton.

DNA samples collected from envelopes of letters Lehman sent home helped identify his remains, which were in a casket with five other people.

Many of Lehman’s relatives still live on the Keweenaw Peninsula.