Going Out With a Bang: Family Fires Veteran's Ashes out of Guns at Shooting Range

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Family Fires Veteran's Ashes out of Guns at Shooting Range

HURRICANE, Utah — Jan 10, 2016, 4:02 AM ET

A Vietnam War veteran literally went out with a bang on Saturday, the St. George Spectrum newspaper reports.

The son of Walter "Jim" Hosey of LaVerkin, Utah, loaded a total of 50 shotgun shells with his father's ashes and fired them off at the Southern Utah Shooting Sports Park in Hurricane with the help of relatives and friends.

His son, Clint Hosey, says: "I think he got a kick out of that."

The newspaper reports that Walter Hosey, who often visited the sports park, died on Jan. 2.

Spilsbury funeral director Mark Heiner called the firing of the shells "a fitting tribute to the way he lived."

Heiner told the Spectrum that he has read about funeral ashes being loaded into shells for memorial shooting, but it's the first instance he knows of in Utah.

[JRD77VET]

That was done for my late friend Tom Benjamin at the gun club. Tom was a real good guy and did his best for the club.

His ashes were loaded into shotgun shells and were fired in three separate volleys.

The first two volleys the wind was at their backs. By the time the third volley was shot, the wind shifted and the ashes came back onto the shooters.

I can almost guarantee Tom was laughing his ass off :yesnod:

[markids77]

My ashes will be divided... half to "our" plot with her family and half at ice house cove in Hatfield MA; site of some of my very best childhood memories. There's always a big Brown trout under the bush I have specified.