The Salt Lake Tribune
By KRISTEN MOULTON
First Published Aug 01 2015
Bluffdale • Twenty veterans who died in Utah, forgotten by or estranged from family and friends, are forgotten no more.
(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jeff Childs of the Patriot Guard Riders reacts as he accepts the flag representing the Army veterans whose remains have never been claimed. Those remains were interred at the Utah state veterans cemetery in Bluffdale on Saturday. Flags were also presented for Navy and Air Force veterans. A total of 22 veterans whose remains are unclaimed.
On Saturday, their cremated remains and those of two other vets were interred at the Utah Veterans Cemetery and Memorial Park in Bluffdale after a military funeral replete with a wreath-laying, rifle volleys, taps and a separate flag-folding and presentation by honor guards of the three military branches.
Some say it's sad these veterans had no one to claim them, said funeral organizer Roger Graves of Cedar City. "I beg to differ. They have all of us. ... Everyone in this chapel today is their family."
"Veterans are all brothers and sisters," said Ogden resident Dennis Howland, president of the Northern Utah chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America. "They belong to us."
Who was interredThe “forgotten” veterans whose remains were buried were:David Reubin Beveridge » NavyAdrien Robert Boileau » Army, 1956-58Paul S. Bronson Jr. » Army, 1942-45 and 1946-58Danny Rae Brownlee » U.S. Navy, peacetimeWoodrow Isaac Burton » Army, 1968-70David Earl Conley » ArmyJohn Bredley Davenport » Navy, 1963-65Louis William Dettling » Navy, 1944-45Robert Leroy Ele, Army » 1972-74Joseph William Hedgbeth » Army 1946-49Gerhart Jansen » Merchant Marine, 1943John Mills Jeffers » Navy, 1961-64 and 1964-74John M. Jones » Army, 1968-71 and 1974-77Keri K. Kuehn » Army, 1972-73Melvin Moore » Navy, 1960-62Robert Muir » Army, 1939-60Larry Eugene Peterson » Air Force, 1957-60James Saxton » Navy 1958-60Arent T. Sjursen III » Air Force, 1961-62James Weiss » Navy, 1959-60
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