The students plan to make as many as 40 wooden urns for The Final Salute, a nonprofit that helps give veterans and some of their spouses whose cremated remains have gone unclaimed in central Iowa for decades a proper send-off.
A central Iowa nonprofit that, over the last five years, has helped dozens of veterans receive a proper burial is hosting its first dinner and dance fundraiser.
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DES MOINES, Iowa- It started as a project for Lanae Strovers while she was working from home after an operation. She went through some old urns left of veterans at the funeral home, which had no family to make arrangements. The first service was in 2018, and has continued every year since. Last year’s service […]