2 Lower Bucks Veterans To Receive Military Burials

WARMINSTER, PA —Two Levittown veterans will receive military burials at a ceremony next Thursday, the Bucks County coroner said.

Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck announced that her office has identified two more of the county’s unclaimed decedents as being U.S. veterans.

Both veterans are from the Vietnam War Era, Buck said.

The community is invited to join the Bucks County Coroner’s Office at the Unattended Veterans Service at Washington Crossing National Cemetery to honor men who served our country and have them properly laid to rest, Buck said.

The ceremony will be held at 830 Highland Road, Newtown, on Thursday, June 29, at 2 p.m.

The veterans being interred are:

• Ralph Burbage, U.S. Air Force (Airman 2nd Class), (Vietnam War Era), from Middletown Township (DOD: 04/25/22)
• Stephen Suckey, U.S. Army (Specialist 4), (Vietnam War Era), from Falls Township (DOD: 06/13/18)

During the ceremony, the veterans’ names will be read, and the Pennsylvania Military Honors team will present the flag on behalf of the veterans.

A rifle salute and live Taps will be provided.

After the ceremony, the veterans will each be placed in their own niche in the columbarium which will be engraved with “Proudly Served.”