Deceased Veteran Gets a Marker

Carl Hansen, who served as a private first-class in the U.S. Army, died in 2012, but a bronze marker honoring his military service was not added to his grave in Cold Spring Cemetery on Peekskill Road until Veterans Day (Nov. 11). 

“Dad always told my mother and I that we wouldn’t have to worry about a grave marker,” said his daughter, Lillian Moser, who lives in Cold Spring. She added that her father had assumed the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would take care of the marker and expenses. 

That was a reasonable assumption. The VA provides markers for veterans at no cost, but it only covers the installation fees for burial in a national or military cemetery such as Arlington, not at private ones. Moser said the family had enough money for a funeral but was not aware of the additional fee, which at the Cold Spring Cemetery is $500.