Man finds dog tags in river, hopes to unite them with family

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Adam Gross of Grand Rapids, Michigan, took up magnet fishing arsenic a hobby a fewer years ago. And past week, helium caught thing peculiar disconnected of a metropolis bridge.

He pulled up canine tags from the bottommost of the Grand River that belonged to a antheral named Clifford J. Voigt.

“They’re dated 1943, truthful who knows erstwhile they really ended up successful there,” Adam Gross said.

Voigt was a World War II veteran, primitively from Grand Rapids.

Through immoderate net sleuthing, Gross was capable to find Voigt's obituary. Voigt was laid to remainder successful Mesa, Arizona, astatine Mountain View Memorial Gardens.

“It would beryllium awesome to spell successful person, you know? Hand it over, you know? But Arizona and Michigan, we’re rather a ways away,” Gross said.

Gross did the adjacent champion happening and reached retired to the cemetery.

“Next measurement is conscionable waiting connected the cemetery. We’re going to spot if I constitute a missive to the family, and they manus that over. Or if I manus my accusation implicit to the cemetery, and they interaction maine back,” Gross said.

Gross says helium hopes Voigt's household reaches out. If not, helium hopes this communicative reaches them.

“They’re not conscionable canine tags. They’re someone’s history,” Gross said.

This communicative was primitively published by Julie Dunmire astatine WXMI.