Pearl Harbor sailor from Anna High's class of 1939 among five honored in Collin County's fallen warrior portraits Nov. 9

A sailor from Anna who went down with the USS Arizona will be added to Collin County's wall of fallen service members next week.

The Collin County Commissioners Court is hosting its fall 2026 Fallen Warrior Portrait Installation at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building, the county announced Monday. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2150 is helping make the ceremony possible.

Seaman First Class Jim Estep

Carl James "Jim" Estep was 20 when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. According to the county's biography, he graduated from Anna High School in 1939, where classmates named him the class favorite, then joined the Navy and was assigned to the battleship Arizona. His remains were never recovered.

The county notes that Estep was the second of three members of his family to die in military service. His uncle James died during World War I, and his nephew Evan was killed during the Korean War.

Four others honored

Estep's portrait joins four others in this round, spanning more than a century of service:

• A 22-year-old Army private from Plano who fought at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in World War I and died of spinal meningitis in 1919 on his way home.
• A 21-year-old Army Air Forces staff sergeant from McKinney, a B-17 waist gunner shot down over France on his first mission in May 1944.
• A 19-year-old Army private first class born in Collin County who enlisted in the California National Guard and was killed in Korea in March 1952, fighting alongside a brother who was wounded.
• A Marine Corps recruit from Wylie who died in August after a medical emergency during training at Camp Pendleton.

Sources

collincountytx.gov