Most of the people who attended Los Angeles County’s ceremony Wednesday for the unclaimed dead didn’t know each other, much less the 1,457 individuals buried together at the Boyle Heights cemetery under the plaque marked 2016. These were our neighbors.”AdvertisementFor Catherine Morris, 85, some of the dead literally were her neighbors. Morris is sure that some of the people buried in the county crematorium cemetery were people she knew. The dead buried here go unclaimed for various reasons: They lost touch with their families before they died, they have no next of kin, their family could not pay the county cremation fee. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times)In previous years, the county provided the names of the individuals being buried.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 05, 2019 02:37 UTC