FERNLEY – On Aug. 28, the cremated remains of five Nevada soldiers will be buried with full military honors at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

This is the first such ceremony, which will take place at 2 p.m., and entails laying to rest unclaimed remains of veterans.

According to the Nevada Office of Veterans Services (NOVS), the five cremated remains were located in a funeral home in Elko.

The NOVS noted some of the remains had been left at the funeral home for nearly a decade and there are a number of reasons cremated remains go unclaimed or forgotten.

The remains will be escorted from Elko to Fernley by Nevada Highway Patrol and carried by motorcycle riders from the POW/MIA Association of Elko and the American Legion Riders from Reno, Sparks and Fernley, reported a NOVS press release.

For more details, call Dorothy Minor, Missing in America Project, at 775-777-1000.