Longtime MIA, Lannom, to be laid to rest in West Tennessee
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Gov. Bill Lee has declared March 2 a day of mourning for Lieutenant Richard C. “Tito” Lannom, Missing in Action since March 1, 1968. As state flags fly at half-staff across Tennessee, family and friends who waited 51 years and a day will finally lay to rest the hometown high school athlete, University of Tennessee at Martin graduate, Naval commander, friend, uncle, cousin and husband who they now know was Killed in Action in Vietnam when he was only 27-years-old.