Los Angeles County to Honor, Bury 1,937 Unclaimed Dead From 2020

Since 1896, the ceremony has paid homage to those who have died but remain unclaimed.

Rev. Chris Ponnet leads an interfaith memorial service at the burial site of the ashes of 1,467 individuals who died but whose remains went unclaimed, at the Los Angeles County Crematory and Cemetery, in Los Angeles on Dec. 5, 2018. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—An estimated 1,937 unclaimed individuals who died in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will be laid to rest Dec. 14.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, along with the Department of Health Services, Office of Decedent Affairs, and the Los Angeles General Medical Center Chaplains, will have a non-denominational interfaith burial ceremony for the county’s unclaimed dead at the L.A. County Cemetery.