04/20/2019
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Veteran with no known next of kin to be laid to rest at Gloucester County Veterans Cemetery
(Monroe Twp., NJ) – On Monday, April 22 at 11 a.m. US Army Veteran Robert Grala will be laid to rest at the Gloucester County Veterans Cemetery with full Military Honors.
Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger said, “Mr. Grala of Williamstown served in the US Army from October 1968 to July 1970. He served in Korea during that time. No one should be laid to rest alone, and although Mr. Grala has no known family, he was part of the military family. His time on earth and in the service mattered and we have been reaching out to veterans’ organizations to help spread the word of his burial.”
Freeholder Dan Christy said that the Gloucester County Veterans Advisory Council will pay for the opening and closing of the grave, and the setting of the headstone will be funded through the Vets Helping Vets account. The federal government will provide the headstone.
In addition to asking for the support of local veterans’ organizations, the Gloucester County Board of Chosen Freeholders would like to encourage any resident to attend the burial and help honor this veteran as he is laid to rest.
“The Gloucester County Veterans Cemetery is a place of dignity and respect, exactly the place Mr. Grala and all of the veterans of our community deserve to be interred. We are honored to spread the word so that he is laid to rest surrounded by fellow veterans and neighbors from across Gloucester County,” said Christy. Dan Christy is the Freeholder Liaison to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Mr. Robert Grala died on January 13, 2019 of natural causes. He was 70 years old. He earned the following awards: National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Army Good Conduct Medal.
The Gloucester County Veterans Memorial Cemetery is located at 240 North Tuckahoe Road in Williamstown, NJ 08094.
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