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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sophia Tareen | AP

‘A person deserves a name,’ says sheriff’s commander who helped identify Chicago vet who died with no memory

At Mount Olivet Cemetery on the Far South Side, Cook County sheriff’s Cmdr. Jason Moran walks away from the gravesite of a person who self-identified by only the name Seven. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)

Buried at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery on the Far South Side in a section for unidentified people are the remains of an elderly person with no memory who went by the self-proclaimed name Seven and died at a nursing home in 2015.

No one knew Seven’s real identity. The remains were marked at burial only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with a number: 04985.

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