Local woman plans markers for unmarked veteran graves

RAVENNA , Ohio (WJW) — While researching gravesites at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Ravenna, Christine Untrauer said she stumbled on the photo of 21-year-old Willie Ross Dennis.

In the photo, she found he was dressed in a military uniform and soon realized he died while serving his country in South Vietnam in January 1968.

“He was a young man when he went off to war. He was in Vietnam for just a month when he died,” she said.

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For nearly 57 years, Dennis had been laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the cemetery near the unmarked graves of his parents and his brothers…

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