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MEMBERS OF THE KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD unfold the American flag in honor of Civil War veteran Pvt. George McCarthy, whose urn is pictured on the honor table behind them. The formerly unclaimed cremains of McCarthy and 13 other veterans were buried with military honors Tuesday at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.
Missing veterans get proper burials By Melissa Treolo mtreolo@theworldco.info
Sun Rodgers of Leavenworth and Betty Wright of Shawnee cried and clung together during Tuesday’s funeral service at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery. The two Gold Star Mothers didn’t know the 14 veterans and three veterans’ wives who were buried in a military funeral organized by the Missing in America Project, but they said the experience was still an emotional one. It brought fresh to mind the sons they had lost — Rodgers’ son, Sgt. Ricky Rodgers, to an illness in 2005 while stationed at Fort Polk, La.; and Wright’s son, Pvt. Shawn Wright, to suicide in 1991 while home on leave. Shortly following their deaths, Ricky Rodgers and Shawn Wright received appropriate burials with military honors. The honors bestowed on the 14 veterans buried Tuesday, however, were long overdue. Pvt. George McCarthy served in the Civil War and died in 1946 at the age of 102. He was cremated, and his ashes sat unclaimed in the storage of Missouri-based funeral home D.W. Newcomer’s Sons for more than 60 years. The cremains of the 13 other veterans, all of whom served in World War I, suffered a similar fate, having no one to claim them for decades. Finally, the Missing in America Project stepped in. The national nonprof it organization works closely with funeral homes to validate and give proper burial services to the veterans left unclaimed by family members.
Unclaimed cremains Linda Smith, head of operations for the organization, says any given funeral home in the United States could have anywhere from 10 to 1,000 sets of cremains of veterans in its storage. Usually state laws dictate that funeral homes must hold onto unclaimed crem a i n s u n t i l t h ey a re claimed, Smith said. It is the Missing In America Project’s goal to claim and valid a te a s m a ny o f t h e s e unclaimed veterans as possible, making sure each and every one is buried, with appropriate military honors, in a national cemetery. But it’s not an easy goal to achieve. Smith said it took about a year for the Missing in America Project to go through the process of proving the 14 veterans buried Tuesday at Fort Leavenworth were, in fact, veterans. She said funeral homes give Missing in America lists of those among their store of unclaimed cremains they believe to be veterans, and then Missing in Americ a re s e a rc h e rs m u s t go through whatever paper trail is available to prove their identities. Missing in America also works to validate the unclaimed cremains of family members of veterans. Thus far, she said, the organization has been responsible for the burials of more than 1,000 formerly unclaimed veterans. Of those, McCarthy was only the second veteran to have served in the Civil War. Smith said all of those
WWI VETERANS The following are the list of World War I veterans and wives buried Tuesday: ● Lt. Col. Ernest Mark and wife, Frances Mark; both discovered dead of poisoning by daughter on June 1, 1937 ● Maj. Albert Payne Duval; died in 1959 ● 1st Lt. Charles Shumaker and wife, Alvira Shumaker; Charles Shumaker died in 1943; no date of death listed for wife ● Sgt. 1st Class James McDonald; died in 1951 ● Sgt. Roy Robbins; died in 1952 ● Sgt. William Kinney; died in 1932 ● Pvt. John Carpenter and wife, Marnodie Carpenter; John Carpenter died in 1967; no date of death listed for wife ● Pvt. Cyrus Dorr; killed in action in 1918 ● Pvt. John McFadyean; died in 1941 ● Pvt. Ralph Lowe; died in 1960 ● Pvt. Ralph Wilson; died in 1952 ● Pvt. John Lawing; died in 1957 ● Pvt. Jerome Joffee; died in 1953.
buried Tuesday came from D.W. Newcomer’s Sons, which operates several funeral homes throughout the Kansas City metro area.
Ceremony The mood during Tuesday’s ceremony was somber and respectful, as honors were f irst bestowed on McCarthy, followed by the 13 World War I veterans and three wives. Posting of the U.S. National Colors was conducted by members of the Kansas National Guard. Civil War re-enactors then carried McCarthy’s urn to the honors table, where military honors were performed by members of the Kansas National Guard who slowly and methodically unfolded and re-folded the flag. A gun salute was performed and “Taps” was played by Samuel Young, one of the re-enactors. The re-enactors then transported McCarthy’s urn to the selected gravesite. A separate, but similar, ceremony for the World War I veterans followed and included words from guest speakers retired Lt. Gen. Robert Arter and Col. Roger Donlon. “These men and women we honor today, their service is a gift to us,” Donlon said in his brief speech. The funeral services were closed by words from William Owensby Jr., director of the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery complex for the National Cemetery Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He said his organization had been and would continue to work with the Missing in America Project to find and bury any and every unclaimed veteran throughout the country. “We take that commitment very seriously,” he said.
district now pays $378.16 each month per covered employee, the value of one month’s premium for an individual; the union originally wanted that increased to $500, then lowered it to $450. The district originally wanted to pay only $333.68, the cost of the same coverage for the coming year, then revised the offer to go back to $378.16. Employees would get to pocket the difference — equivalent to $44.48 per month — in the form of a one-time payment. The union sees room to compromise: The district can stick to its current payment of $378. 16, but employees should be able to use the difference — the $44.48 per month — either to purchase improved coverage or reduce the price of having family coverage, said David Reber, the district’s lead negotiator. That way employees could be using the savings for health, Reber said, and therefore avoid having to pay taxes on the money. “There are lots of options for where that money could go,” Reber said.
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Maceli’s, 1031 N.H. in downtown Lawrence, that was attended by about 100 people. It was a fundraiser for Independence Inc., an agency that provides a variety of services for people with disabilities. Shomari emphasized that she wouldn’t be able to be independent without the help of family, friends and complete strangers — those willing to get something down from a shelf at the grocery store, for example. “I can celebrate my independence because I have been able to depend on others,” she said. She also depends on agencies like Independence Inc. for services like transportation and use of computers, and it’s an agency that’s experiencing funding cuts. “It’s scary to open emails every day,” said Stacey Hunter Schwartz, executive director of Independence Inc. She said they just lost $60,000 from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services for attendant care. “That’s the latest blow,” she said. Hunter Schwartz said Independence Inc. honored Douglas County administrator Craig Weinaug with its first Champion award during the luncheon because he gives “great thought” to the ramifications of budget deciWeinaug sions. She said he also tries to solve problems for organizations, even when it’s not his job. “He’s someone who doesn’t just push the papers around. He really tries to understand what each organization provides to the community and he cares about the citizens of the community receiving those services,” she said. “They are not just functions, objects and numbers to him.” Weinaug, 59, pulls from his personal experiences. At 10 months old, he suffered an extremely high fever that caused brain damage. As a result, his right side is par-
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Teacher evaluations also remain a contested topic, although Reber sees room for compromise there, too. For the past two years, a joint committee of teachers and administrators has been working on revising the district’s methods for evaluating teacher performance, so that the process includes more self-evaluation by teachers. The district has pushed for the process to continue, while the union has argued that it should stop — unless the district would agree to change the way it decides which teachers get let go in the event of layoffs, known as a “reduction in force,” or RIF. The union could back off its push against the RIF process, at least for now, provided that the district understands that the union still opposes it and intends to bring it back up again next year, Reber said. Thursday’s meeting will give both sides a chance to compare notes, and potentially reach a tentative agreement. “We’re getting really close,” Reber said.
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