Some veterans’ headstones misplaced at Houston National Cemetery
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Updated 11:02 p.m., Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The cemetery is in the process of contacting next-of-kin listed in the burial records for all 14 grave sites, but Elton said she has yet to reach anyone.
Similar errors occurred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, where contractors misplaced 47 markers during renovations in 2004, resulting in four people later being buried in the wrong graves.
The audit checked 1.3 million graves in 85 cemeteries and found three people buried in the wrong plots and 54 markers misplaced at veterans’ resting places in Ohio, New Mexico, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
“The Houston National Cemetery employees were being proactive and they found this and they brought it to management’s attention immediately,” said Elton, the acting director.
[...] four years later, a veteran who was supposed to be buried in the same plot as his wife instead was buried with someone else.