A Georgia native with South Boston roots who was fatally interred in the waters of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, will receive full military honors during his funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery next week (March 27).

Chief Warrant Officer (WO) John Gaynor Connolly, who served the Navy in China, Russia, and the Philippine Islands over 28 years, had been buried for some 84 years as an unknown sailor at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii before his identification, was one of 429 officers, sailors, and Marines who perished when their ship, which was moored at the US Naval base that day, was sunk during the attack by Japanese Navy’ planes. There were 32 crew members listed as survivors.

WO Connolly, who enlisted in the US Navy out of Boston in 1913, was the nephew of a celebrated South Boston athlete and author, James Brendan Connolly, who on the opening day of the renewal of the Olympics Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896 won the triple jump, placed second in the high jump, and third in the high jump.

A destroyer escort, the USS Connolly (DE-306), was named in WO Connolly’s honor when it was launched on Jan. 15, 1944 and sponsored by his widow, Mary Francis Connolly.