Family of US veteran ‘devastated’ by burial rejection
DECEMBER 04, 2023 JEFF BURBANK - LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
Sisters Lynne Mowers and Kathy Mitchell flew across the country in October to attend a funeral for their parents at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.
Weeks earlier, officials had approved the burial of U.S. Army and Reserve veteran Charles Paul Conner and his wife Agnes on Oct. 18. The sisters had ordered a “Faith & Prayer” praying hands emblem, the inscription “Wind Beneath My Wings” and birth and death dates for their parents’ internment marker.
But a day before the scheduled burial, Mowers, who had traveled to Las Vegas from New York, received a call from Alexander Keeling, an administrator with the Nevada Department of Veterans Service, who said her parents could not be buried at the veterans cemetery after all.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/12/family-of-us-veteran-devastated-by-burial-rejection/
