Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has ordered flags be lowered to half-staff statewide on all public buildings from sunrise until sunset on Saturday, August 13, 2016, in honor of Navy ensign John Charles England.

England, a Pearl Harbor hero and Medal of Honor recipient, was officially classified as among the unknown who died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dececember 7, 1941. England's remains were positively identified this year after nearly 70 years in an unmarked mass grave in Hawaii.

England will be buried with full military honors on Saturday, August 13 at 10 a.m. in Colorado Springs, in a plot beside his parents, at 1005 S. Hancock Ave.

Services will be followed by a themed reception, with reenactors from the Evergreen Cemetery Benevolent Society, Colorado WWII Living Historians and autos from the Pikes Peak Chapter Veteran Motor Car Club of America.