Veterans Affairs Fires Contractor over Cemetery Construction Delays

 

Concrete vaults at rest at Great Lakes National Cemetery, the unfinished 544-acre national cemetery in Holly, Mich.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has fired Edge Construction Co. of Southfield, Mich., contracted to build the Great Lakes National Cemetery near Holly, Mich., 45 miles northwest of Detroit. Chronic delays and quality control problems were cited by Ray Kempisty, spokesman for the National Cemetery Administration in Washington, D.C.

The Detroit Press noted the Sharp Funeral Home in nearby Fenton now holds 70 bodies destined for the cemetery.