Veterans cemetery sees 250 family burials under new benefit
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The North Dakota Veterans Cemetery. (Facebook)
BISMARCK, N.D. Raymond Voegele considers it an honor for his wife, Rose, to be buried at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1946-47 in South Korea. The couple later met in a church choir in Glen Ullin. They married in 1952. Raymond Voegele went to refrigeration school in Minneapolis, worked for a Glen Ullin hardware store for 10-12 years, then at military bases in Montana and later Utah, where the couple spent a number of years and he retired.
The 2021 Legislature extended a burial benefit for spouses and eligible dependents of military veterans to be interred at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery.