Delaware County: Veterans Cemetery Repairs, Grave Markers and the Veterans Graves Search

Cemetery work. The Delaware County Veterans Service Office employs a cemetery information coordinator, Fabia Taylor, who repairs and maintains veterans' graves and memorials across the county - the commission's January 27, 2026 minutes gave her a $25,000 expenditure limit for that work, spent without asking the board each time, and commended her restorations. In June 2026 the board settled the terms of a marker policy: the office pays up to $400 a grave marker for a veteran who lived in Delaware County, under a policy then awaiting legal approval. The City of Delaware's Oak Grove Cemetery has a veterans section the county pays the city to maintain (about $11,039 in the September 17, 2026 journal), and the board has helped restore a fallen memorial at Burnside Cemetery on Lewis Center Road. Indigent burial. Section 5901.25 has the commission bury or cremate a veteran, or a veteran's parent, spouse or surviving spouse, who died without means, with up to $1,000 from the county (see the Ohio entry). No page of the county or the commission describes its practice, so call 740-833-2010 before signing a funeral contract. In 2026 the county auditor began issuing funeral reimbursements to the DCVA and VVA chapters, whose members drove veterans' funerals, for distribution to the drivers. The graves record. The county Recorder keeps the county's record of veterans' graves, searchable online at the Recorder's site, alongside the recorded discharges.