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Century-old bronze bust stolen from Mich. cemetery
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - A century-old bronze bust above a grave in Kalamazoo is missing and officials suspect it may have been taken to be sold as scrap.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports the 28-inch bust of Richard B. Westnedge was reported stolen Jan. 13 from Riverside Cemetery.
Police don't have any suspects.
Lynn Houghton, regional history curator at the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, says the bust likely was taken for the value of its metal.
Westnedge was a surgeon in the Spanish-American War and died of typhoid fever in 1899. Houghton says his brother was Col. Joseph B. Westnedge, who died at the end of World War I. In 1921, Kalamazoo renamed West Street to Westnedge Avenue in honor of them.
Century-old bronze bust stolen from Mich. cemetery
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - A century-old bronze bust above a grave in Kalamazoo is missing and officials suspect it may have been taken to be sold as scrap.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports the 28-inch bust of Richard B. Westnedge was reported stolen Jan. 13 from Riverside Cemetery.
Police don't have any suspects.
Lynn Houghton, regional history curator at the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, says the bust likely was taken for the value of its metal.
Westnedge was a surgeon in the Spanish-American War and died of typhoid fever in 1899. Houghton says his brother was Col. Joseph B. Westnedge, who died at the end of World War I. In 1921, Kalamazoo renamed West Street to Westnedge Avenue in honor of them.
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