RANGELEY — An interment ceremony and remembrance reception for Vietnam War pilot Lt. j.g. Neil Brooks Taylor, who was killed in South Vietnam in 1965, will be held on Monday, Sept. 14.

It will be the 50th anniversary of his death when he was 25 years old.

According to the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Taylor was declared dead on Sept. 14, 1965, when his plane crashed on land near Minh Hai in the Kien Giang province. The Rangeley native was serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

He was the pilot of a Douglas Attack Aircraft Skyhawk (A-4C), part of Attack Squadron 192, Carrier Air Wing 19, with the 7th Fleet aboard aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard CVA 31, according to the agency.

It was his 68th mission.

Taylor’s remains were recovered by U.S. military personnel on June 24, 2013, and were identified on Nov. 25, 2014.

The interment, with full military honors, will be held at Evergreen Cemetery on Main Street in Rangeley at 1 p.m.

He will be posthumously awarded the State of Maine Gold Star Recognition medal by Sen. Thomas Saviello, R-Wilton, and a flag that flew over the Maine capital building will be presented to Taylor’s sister, Ann Taylor Wilber.

He has already been awarded the National Defense Service Medal, a Purple Heart and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.

The procession will start around noon at Depot Street in Rangeley, with a military escort bringing Taylor and his family to the cemetery. The service will conclude with a naval flyover at 2 p.m.

Town officials ask people to line Main Street for the procession, and local businesses have been supplied with small American flags for employees to wave as the procession moves through town.

Following the service, there will be a remembrance reception from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Loon Lodge Inn, 16 Pickford Road.

The interment ceremony and reception are open to the public.

For more information, contact the town office at [email protected] or call 207-864-2257.