Meagan Heisinger has spent years wanting to find her father, James Bradley Lane — a man she says she hadn’t seen since she was a baby.
This year, she wrote on a GoFundMe page, an ancestry test helped change that. With guidance from an “ancestry angel” — a volunteer who helps people understand their results — Heisinger said she was finally able to locate her dad. What she learned next hit hard: Lane had died and was buried at Washington State Veterans Cemetery (WSVC) in Medical Lake as an unclaimed veteran.
Now, Heisinger says she’s trying to bring her father’s remains back to Colorado so she can visit him…