Remains identified: A ceremony at the Montana State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Harrison, near Helena, provides a military burial Friday to seven veterans whose remains sat for years unidentified and unclaimed on funeral home shelves. Missing in America Project volunteers identified the remains after visiting funeral homes in Billings, Kalispell and Whitefish, taking inventory of unclaimed remains and authenticating the names with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs records. The veterans are Jon William Ball, of Kalispell; James Brodniak, of Kalispell; Orville Clinton Hatch, of Billings; Anthony Mills, of Billings; Michael Lynn Shannon, of Whitefish; Charles Shelton, of Kalispell; and Charles Rollin Spears, of Kalispell. The Montana American Legion and Disabled American Veterans ensured that each of the seven men received a burial vault and headstone. (Associated Press)
Remains identified: A ceremony at the Montana State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Harrison, near Helena, provides a military burial Friday to seven veterans whose remains sat for years unidentified and unclaimed on funeral home shelves. Missing in America Project volunteers identified the remains after visiting funeral homes in Billings, Kalispell and Whitefish, taking inventory of unclaimed remains and authenticating the names with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs records. The veterans are Jon William Ball, of Kalispell; James Brodniak, of Kalispell; Orville Clinton Hatch, of Billings; Anthony Mills, of Billings; Michael Lynn Shannon, of Whitefish; Charles Shelton, of Kalispell; and Charles Rollin Spears, of Kalispell. The Montana American Legion and Disabled American Veterans ensured that each of the seven men received a burial vault and headstone.
