Amid a sea of graves marked with individual names and messages of love at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Renton, there is one that reads, “Gone but not forgotten, these people of Seattle, June 2012.”
This single epitaph represents 154 individuals, 122 men and 32 women, whose remains were never claimed.
On a cloudy afternoon June 13, each was cremated and placed in an urn marked with the deceased’s name, as part of the King County Medical Examiner’s Indigent Remains Program. ...