The first known same-sex partner burial happened this week at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Ken Sims was buried at the military cemetery on Monday, July 12.
He was interred in the same grave as his husband, Lowell A. Worthington (1933-2017). Worthington served in the U.S. Army and was a Korean War-era veteran.
Veterans and their partners are buried one above the other in military cemeteries. The couple is buried in Section 97, Row 1, Grave site #2.
The Rev. Erin Wyma, associate pastor at Cathedral of Hope, officiated. Since it was established in 2000, there have been 78,000 burials at the cemetery with capacity for 200,000 more.