Source: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jordan Lazaro / Wikimedia Commons
A government-furnished headstone now marks the grave of Herbert O’Hara, a World War II Army veteran who died in 1962 without family to remember him. Former students of Omaha’s St. John’s High School helped secure the marker after discovering his grave was unmarked.
The effort began with reunion research. Bruce Atkinson, a member of St. John’s Class of 1964, was looking into classmates and gravestones when he discovered that the school’s former janitor, O’Hara, had no headstone, according to KMTV 3 News Now Omaha. Atkinson learned O’Hara had served in the U.S. Army during World War II and asked classmate Hughleen Thorsen to help investigate…