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The Cuyahoga County Recorded Documents Veterans Data and Information Web Site is designed to provide you with veteran information, support and burial sites for veterans whose graves are situated in Cuyahoga County.  Also included on this site are links to various Veteran’s Administration Web Sites and Services, as well as specialized links to specific services provided to veterans of Cuyahoga County.

The Ohio Revised Code, Section 317.25, designates the County Recorded Documents Office as the depository for information relating to the locations of all veteran’s grave sites within the county.  Every effort has been made to make this list as inclusive as possible. 

We believe that this is the first time that any Recorded Documents Office in the country has attempted to provide this type of database to the public via the internet.  Our records contain over 100,000 Cuyahoga County grave sites but it is possible that there are many more that we are not aware of.

Our information is provided by the Ohio Department of Health, Vital Statistics Unit, and our database is therefore dependant upon the materials supplied to us by that office.  If you believe that your loved one, or someone you know, was a member of the armed forces and is buried in a grave located in Cuyahoga County which is not found on our list, please provide us with whatever information you may have (a DD-214 and any other service related forms would be helpful) and we will investigate your inquiry and attempt to confirm the information provided.  All confirmed burials will be updated on our data base with the information obtained through our inquiry.

Honor The Fallen

National Grave Locator
Sgt. Brett T.Christian Master Sgt. Robert M. Dowdy Corporal Timothy Knight Private Brandon Sloan
 
Sgt. Brett T. Christian 27, of North Royalton, Ohio, and stationed at Fort Campbell, was killed early on July 23, 2003  when his convoy came under attack by rocket-propelled grenades. Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, of Cleveland, the 507th company's first sergeant, was killed in action March 23, 2003.  He was mechanical maintenance supervisor.
 On Monday, February 7, 2005, Cpl. Timothy A. Knight, USMC, was laid to rest. He was killed in a tragic helicopter crash while serving in Iraq.
Pvt. Brandon U. Sloan, 19, of Bedford Heights, Ohio, was killed in action March 23, 2003. He was an automated logistics specialist.


 
        
Lance Cpl. Thomas Keeling Cpl. Brad Squires
Specialist Joseph Gamback Jr.		 Marine Cpl. Jeffrey A. Boskovitch

       
Keeling had been in Iraq since February, and was assigned to a mobile  strike force seeking insurgents in the Anbar province near the Syrian border. Keeling  told him that he was proud of  the job U.S. troops were doing in Iraq.
 Brad Squires graduated from Berea High School in 1997. His aunt, Donna Dirk, of Middleburg Heights, said Squires got married last December, just before being deployed to Iraq. She described him as  "fun-loving,  very family-oriented, really a nice kid." He is survived by his wife, Julie, parents Donna and Bruce Squires,  a brother, Chad Squires, and sister, Jodie Bogdan.  Joseph M.Garmback Jr. Jr. was a family man who wanted to follow in the steps of his paratrooper father. "He was a good son. He was a good brother. He had a lot of fun," said his mother, Marlyon Garmback. Garmback Jr., 24, of Cleveland, was killed July 8, 2004. One of five soldiers killed when the Iraqi National Guard headquarters was attacked in Baghdad. Garmback is survived by his parents, Joseph Sr. and Marlyon.
 Marine Cpl. Jeffrey A. Boskovitch 25, of Seven Hills, Ohio; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Brook Park, Ohio; attached to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward); killed Aug. 1 by small-arms fire while conducting dismounted operations outside Haditha, Iraq.
 
      
Marine Lance Cpl. Brian P. Montgomery Sgt. Bryan W. Large Marine Lance Cpl. Robert F. Eckfield Jr. Marine Lance Cpl. David A. Mendez Ruiz
       
 Marine Lance Cpl. Brian P. Montgomery 26, of Willoughby, Ohio; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Brook Park, Ohio; attached to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward); killed Aug. 1

  Sgt. Bryan W. Largean Army sergeant from Cuyahoga Falls and two fellow paratroopers were killed Monday in Iraq when a bomb exploded near their Humvee.  An improvised explosive killed Army Sgt. Bryan W. Large, 31, of the Falls, during combat in Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq, at about 10 p.m. local time, said Army spokesman Lt. Col. John Robinson. Marine Lance Cpl. Robert F. Eckfieldan Ohio Marine in his third tour of duty in Iraq made his mother promise to bury him in Arlington National Cemetery if he was killed.  Lance Cpl. Robert F. Eckfield Jr. of Cleveland died Thursday from injuries sustained in an explosion, the military said late Friday.  They said he was killed when something, a shell or something, went through the building he was in. Marine Lance Cpl. David A. Mendez Ruiz  20, of Cleveland; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twenty-nine Palms, Calif.; attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward); killed Nov. 12 by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Amiriyah, Iraq.
 
        
Marine Sgt. Michael M. Kashkoush Army Master Sgt. Joseph J. Andres, Jr. Lance CPL. Andrew W. Nowacki Army Staff Sgt. Michael J. Wiggins
 
      
Michel M. Kashkoush, 24, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; assigned to 3rd   Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan; died Jan. 23 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq. Army Master Sgt. Joseph J. Andres, Jr., 34, of Seven Hills, Ohio; assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died Dec. 24 in Balad, Iraq, 
 Andrew Nowacki, 24, died Saturday while serving as a gunner on a Humvee that was protecting a truck convoy south of Baghdad.  Nowacki was a police officer in Grand River, about 25 miles northeast of Cleveland Michael J. Wiggins, 26, of Cleveland, Ohio; assigned to the 79th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; died Jan. 23 in Balad, Iraq, of a non-combat related injury.
 
      
Marine Sgt. Justin T. Walsh Army Sgt. James R. Worster Airforce Sr. Airman Alecia S. Good Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Scherry
     
Marine Sgt. Justin Walsh 24, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; assigned to the 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Oct. 11 at National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, Md. Army Sgt. James Worster 24, of Broadview Heights, Ohio; assigned to the 10th Combat Support Hospital, 43rd Area Support Group, Fort Carson, Colo.; died   Sept. 18 from a non-combat related incident in Baghdad. Sr. Airman Alecia Good, of Broadview Heights, Ohio; assigned to the 92nd Communications Squadron, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash.; deployed to Djibouti as part of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa; killed Feb. 17 Cpl. Daniel Scherry 20, of Rocky River, Ohio; assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died April 16 from a non-hostile accident in Anbar province.
 
        
Marine Gunnery Sgt. Adam F. Benjamin Army Major Michael L. Green Marine Lance Cpl. David R. Hall Army Special Richard A. Walters Jr.

   
Sgt. Adam Bejamin, 34, of Garfield Heights, Ohio; assigned to 8th Engineer Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Aug. 18 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.  Major Michael Green, 36, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; assigned to Head -quarters, V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany; died January 7, 2008 in Laghar Juy, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive  device. Also killed was Sgt. James K. Healy.  Cpl. David R. Hall 31, of Elyria, Ohio; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Aug. 31 2009 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, while supporting combat operations. Special Richard Walters Jr. 41, of Cleveland, Ohio; assigned to the 14th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Benning, Ga.; died Aug. 10 in Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, of injuries sustained in a non-combat-related incident.