No Longer ‘Unclaimed’: Hundreds Gather to Give Navy Veteran a Hero’s Farewell

March 11, 2026 World News

Military chaplain Deacon Conrad Donarski, known as CJ from his own military background, led the ceremony and prayed over the casket of Lonnie Wayman, a man he could personally call “friend” after meeting him in hospice care.

Lonnie Wayman entered his final resting place not unclaimed, but with a sea of strangers who, in that moment, became family.

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