Services were held Friday for World War II veteran John Q. Lott who died at the Veterans Administration Hospital last month. No one claimed his body. He was indigent and had no local next of kin. The Veterans of Foreign Wars made it possible for Lott's remains to be buried with military honors at Santa Fe National Cemetery today.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
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