There will be a transfer ceremony at 3 p.m. Thursday at Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory in Kalispell for the cremains of five military veterans.

The cremains are being transferred into the care of the Montana chapter of Missing In America Project.

The Patriot Guard Riders will assist. Montana State Chaplain Rikki Perkins will receive the cremains and transport them to the Montana State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Harrison the following day.

On Friday morning the Kalispell escort will meet at 6 a.m. at the Best Western White Oak Grand Hotel on U.S. 93 near Somers.

They will depart for Butte promptly at 6:30 a.m. In Butte the contingency will meet with the Billings escort and proceed to Fort Harrison.

The internment ceremony at Fort Harrison will begin at 2:30 p.m.

Veterans to be interred include Charles J. Shelton, U.S. Navy World War II; James J. Brodniel, U.S. Army Vietnam; Jon W. Ball, U.S. Army Vietnam; Michael L. Shannon, U.S. Army, 1974-1975; Charles R. Spears, U.S. Army 1955-1958; Orville C. Hatch, U.S. Army World War II; and Anthony Mills, U.S. Marine Corps, 1977.

The mission of the Missing in America Project is to locate, identify and inter the unclaimed cremains of veterans through the joint efforts of private, state, and federal organizations and to provide honor and respect to those who have served their country.