{"id":18586,"date":"2018-11-13T23:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T23:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/13\/service-held-for-veterans-cremains-found-at-funeral-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:16:59","slug":"service-held-for-veterans-cremains-found-at-funeral-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/11\/13\/service-held-for-veterans-cremains-found-at-funeral-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Service held for veterans’ cremains found at funeral home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOLLY, Mich. \u2014 A service was held Monday at a Michigan cemetery for the cremated remains of about 20 military veterans found in a closed Detroit funeral home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearses bearing the remains were escorted by police from the Detroit area to Great Lakes National Cemetery<\/a> in Holly, about 50 miles northwest of Detroit. They were given a 21-gun salute and taps was played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of each veteran being laid to rest also was read aloud. Their remains were among several hundred discovered this year inside the Cantrell Funeral Home, which the state shut down in April after inspectors found improperly stored bodies and other violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To bury the dead is one of the great acts of mercy and the final act of charity that we can give to our brothers today,” monsignor and retired Navy chaplain Timothy Hogan said in leading the service. “Now, may they rest in peace.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A visitor walks through rows of headstones at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly on Monday. (Dale G.Young\/Detroit News via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Detroit police are investigating Cantrell Funeral Home after the remains of 10 mummified fetuses and a full-term infant were found last month beneath insulation in a ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A separate investigation is underway on the Perry Funeral Home in Detroit after 63 fetuses also were found last month<\/a> in boxes and freezers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verheyden Funeral Homes <\/a>in the Detroit area provided identification of the cremains from Cantrell at no cost, and led efforts to bury them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-military remains were interred earlier this month at a Detroit cemetery. Some of those have yet to be identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\t