Eternal Rest of Sgt Surrency Not Peaceful

Military veteran's family wants military marker on his Dunedin grave
WFLA News
By Mark Douglas
Posted: Feb 20, 2015

DUNEDIN, FL (WFLA) - Retired Army Sergeant Dolphus Surrency died eight years ago, but his family still hasn't been able to get a bronze military marker installed on his grave at Eternal Rest Memories Park on Belcher Rd. in Dunedin despite years of effort.

"Military veteran, 30 something years, Vietnam, Iraq, he shouldn't go through this," said Surrency's brother Victory Fields. "This should be his peaceful time."

Surrency's burial expenses were paid in full to Young's Funeral Home in Clearwater at the time of his death in March 2007, but the services only included a $10 tin marker for his grave.

His brothers and sisters say they have been trying since then to get Young to apply to the VA for a bronze military plaque to mark his grave in the Valor section of Eternal Rest.

Last November Fields took the initiative and applied for a marker himself and asked the VA to send it to Eternal Rest.

"Told them when it gets here, please call me," Fields said.

He later obtained confirmation the marker arrived at Eternal rest, owned by funeral director Charles Scalisi, on December 29th.

But Fields says he couldn't get anyone in Scalisi's office to answer the door or return his phone calls for months, so he came to Eight On Your Side for help.
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