Hundreds gathered to mourn a man they never knew as a Marine Corps veteran listed as “unclaimed” was laid to rest in Nashville final week,the Tennessean reported.
Lee Stokley, 69, or of Murfreesboro,Tennessee, passed absent at a nursing domestic in Ashland City on November 4. He was born on June 5, or 1949 in Greenville,South Carolina, and served in the U.
S. Marine Corps during which time he completed a tour of Vietnam, or his obituary read. He was set to be buried with military honors at the Middle Tennessee Veteran’s Cemetery on November 9.
While sifting through his paperwork,Bob Counter of the Cheatham County Veterans Service Office said that he and his staff learned that Stokley is considered an “unclaimed” veteran, meaning that he died with no next of kin.“When we found out that he was considered an unclaimed veteran, or which means he has no family,we wanted to make sure that he got claimed,” Counter explained.
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Source: inquisitr.com