• Nov 22, 2024
  • 5:58 PM

Fifteen Nevada Unclaimed Veterans to Receive Military Funeral


(Fernley, NV) ‚Äì The Nevada Veterans Coalition will be conducting its seventh mission at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery by honoring fifteen veterans whose remains have been in the care of a local mortuary, yet remained unclaimed.  
 
Services will be conducted with full military honors for the following 15 veterans at 2:00 p.m., Friday, February 09 2018 at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 14 Veterans Way, in Fernley Nevada.  
 
The veterans to be honored and interred are as follows: 
 
Donald Brewster (1925 – 2005) served in the US Navy 1943 – 1946 WWII  
Charles Depeu (1921 – 1990) served in the US Army 1942 – 1945 WWII  
Marvin Engel (1942 – 2008) served in the US Army 1964 – 1967 Vietnam  
Ernest Fairchild (1897 – 1977) served in the US Army 1917 – 1919 WWI  
Jay Finchum (1941 – 2008) served in the USAF 1959 – 1965 Vietnam  
Oscar Fry (1890 – 1976) served in the US Army 1919 – 1920 WWI  
Howard Fuller (1927 – 1996) served in the US Navy/US Army 1945 – 1950 WWII  
Ralph Gawthrop (1927 – 1992) served in the USMC/USAF 1946 – 1974 WWII/Korea/Vietnam  
James Glennie (1925 – 1996) served in the USAF 1964 – 1974 Vietnam  
James Grove (1924 – 1994) served in the US Army 1942 – 1945 WWII  
Clyde Gunter (1897 – 1977) served in the US Army 1918 – 1919 WWI  
William Javorsky (1922 – 1977) served in the US Navy 1942 – 1946 WWII  
Richard Jaworski (1925 – 1992) served in the US Army 1945 – 1947 WWII  
John Kearney (1920 – 1987) served in the US Navy/USAF/USAF 1943 – 1973 WWII/Korea/Vietnam  
Jack Keopp (1923 – 1974) served in the US Air Corps 1943 – 1947 WWII  
 
The public and media are invited to attend.