The Unattended Veterans Service will honor the memory of four unclaimed veterans from Chester County with full military honors.

The community is invited to join the Chester County Coroner’s Office at the Unattended Veterans Service at Washington Crossing National Cemetery. The ceremony will be held at 830 Highland Road in Newtown Pa. on Thursday, October 30 at 2 p.m. The Coroner’s Office will be interring four unclaimed veterans who died in Chester County with full military honors.

 The veterans being honored are Richard Decker, U.S. Air Force, a resident of Downingtown Borough, who died in Willistown Township, Lawrence G. Hayman, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard, a resident of Upper Darby, who died in East Bradford Township, Robert Lee Minker, U.S. Army, a resident of Reading Borough, who died in East Coventry Township, and Jeffrey Allen Perkins, U.S. Army, a resident of East Vincent Township, who died in East Vincent Township.

The veterans will be escorted from the Chester County Coroner’s Office to Washington Crossing National Cemetery by the Patriot Guard Riders. During the ceremony, the veterans’ names will be read, and the Pennsylvania Military Honors team will present the flag on the behalf of the veterans. A rifle salute and live “Taps” will be performed. The veterans will each be placed in their own columbarium which will be engraved with “Proudly Served.”