Medical Examiner lays veterans to rest after no family steps forward
Ken Kolker - Yesterday 2:35 PM
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - For months, their remains lay unclaimed in a morgue - five men who served in the military without families to claim them. Thursday, they were buried with honors.
At the end of their lives, they had no families to keep their stories alive, at least none that came forward. Their cremains were left in boxes unclaimed, one for more than a year.
“The cremains come back to the ME and we are considered to be their next of kin," said Michelle Fox with the Office of the Medical Examiner at Sparrow Hospital.
The ME’s office reached out to family, friends and other contacts but nobody returned those calls.
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