BELL COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) - We recently shared with you how a funeral home in Temple has a large number of unclaimed bodies with no real way of contacting possible relatives.

One of those bodies was a local veteran that remained unclaimed for over a year but is now laid to rest at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery.

Glen Ybanez served in the Air Force and his body remained in storage since his death 2024 because no one had claimed him.

At least not until someone in the community recognized his name on the list of unclaimed bodies at the Crotty Funeral Home.

“Sarah, the owner of Biggie Mini Self Storage, came to the office and was like, you’re never going to believe what I saw,” said Sarah Jackson who helped Ybanez get the honors he earned. “I was like, what was that. Crotty Fune

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