3 WWII vets’ unclaimed remains being buried in NY
A funeral with full military honors will be held for three World War II veterans whose ashes went unclaimed for years at upstate New York funeral homes.
The funeral for Hans Frederick Hanson of Clifton Park, Kimber Rhoads of Putnam County and Warren Anger, hometown unknown, is being held Friday at Saratoga National Cemetery, 20 miles north of Albany.
Veterans organizations say the unclaimed ashes of tens of thousands of veterans are kept on funeral home shelves nationwide. Some have stayed in New York funeral homes for more than 40 years.
Two of Hanson’s nephews plan to attend Friday’s funeral. They had been searching for information on their uncle for years, and only learned about his funeral this week when the Times Union of Albany published an article about it…