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Former senator to be buried at Veterans Cemetery

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 | 6:43 a.m.

CARSON CITY – Former state Senator Ray Shaffer of North Las Vegas, who died recently, will be buried at the Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery in Boulder City, his widow says.

Sharon Shaffer says her husband’s body is at the Medical Education and Research Institute of Nevada in Henderson where doctors practice new procedures on donated bodies.

Sharon said the body will be cremated and it could be several weeks before the institute releases the remains.

Shaffer, a civil engineer, served in the Senate from 1985 to 2003.

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