Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck announced that her office has identified two of the County’s unclaimed decedents who died in 2014 and two who died in 2015 as being United States Veterans.
“The community is invited to join the Bucks County Coroner’s Office at the Unattended Veterans Service at Washington Crossing National Cemetery to honor men who served our country and have them properly laid to rest,” Buck stated. This ceremony will be held at 830 Highland Road, Newtown, at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23.
The veterans being interred are: George Collins, Army (Specialist), from Doylestown Township; Victor L Judge, Air Force (Airman Basic), from Falls Township; Alvin Emmet Lyles, Army (Private), from Bristol Township; and Augustus Tomlinson, Army (Sergeant), from Bristol Township.
Collins and Judge both passed away in 2014, while Lyles and Tomlinson passed away in 2015.
During the ceremony, these veterans’ names will be read, and the Pennsylvania Military Honors team will present the flag on behalf of the veterans. A rifle salute and live Taps will be provided. After the ceremony, the veterans will each be placed in their own niche in the columbarium which will be engraved with “Proudly Served.”
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