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Welsh to receive military burial

Thursday, May 19, 2005 | 9:28 a.m.

Longtime boxing writer Jack Welsh, who died April 24 in Las Vegas, will be buried Friday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery, 1900 Buchanan Blvd., Boulder City.

Welsh, a corporal in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946, will be buried with a full military honor guard. A Marine chaplain, Marvin Gant, will officiate. Services will begin at 10:40 a.m.

Welsh was 80, according to military records.

Special thanks go to Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who paid all outstanding expenses for the burial not covered by the military.

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