More than 100 gather to honor WWII veteran
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Veterans from across Georgia gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of a World War II veteran whose death, his daughter had feared, would go unnoticed.
More than 100 people gathered at the Masonic Lodge in Flowery Branch to honor Pfc. Cornelius Cornelssen VIII, a man who many in attendance had never met, The Gainesville Times reported. The 93-year-old died earlier this month and his daughter Candice Easton had been worried no one would show up to his "celebration of life," especially since her father was from New York and had moved to Georgia later in his life.