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Cremains of 18 veterans who died at OSH will finally be buried

May 22, 2015

Statesman Journal, May 21, 2015 Thanks to the diligent work of the Oregon State Hospital and the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the cremains of 18 military veterans and two spouses of veterans will be interred with full military honors on Friday, May 22, at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. The state hospital is the […]

Opinion: Return dignity to 1,566 persons, cremated at OSH, whose identities won’t be sought

July 14, 2014

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By William Hughes, Guest Column in The Oregonian, July 11, 2014 On July 4, I should have been celebrating. Instead, I was sitting, saddened and appalled, having just read an article in The Oregonian. It reported on newfound evidence of 1,500 citizens and wards of the state of Oregon who have become lost forever. Authorities […]

Unclaimed remains at Oregon State Hospital are not from Asylum Cemetery, officials say

July 4, 2014

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The Oregonian, July 3, 2014 For years, Oregon officials assumed that some of the thousands of unclaimed urns at the Oregon State Hospital belonged to patients who were buried in a hospital cemetery, exhumed in 1913 and 1914, then cremated. Now, officials said this week, researchers don’t think any of the urns are linked to the […]