{"id":22400,"date":"2013-11-22T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=22400"},"modified":"2013-11-22T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:45:26","slug":"lewis-county-coroner-at-dead-end-locating-family-of-deceased-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=22400","title":{"rendered":"Lewis County coroner at dead end locating family of deceased veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS \u2013 Authorities are turning to the public for help to find the relatives of a Centralia man who died last month<\/p>\n<p>Robert Aita, 63, passed away at Providence Centralia Hospital on Oct. 3 of natural causes, according to Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>Among his office&#8217;s responsibilities is notifying next-of-kin but so far, they have found none, according to McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone we have spoken to during our follow-up investigations who knew the decedent stated he never spoke of any family,&#8221; McLeod said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner indicates he&#8217;d rather not have someone read about the death of a loved one in the news media, but after conducting various unsuccessful searches, felt it was prudent.<\/p>\n<p>Aita lived in Centralia with his girlfriend who also recently passed away, and a law enforcement database search turned up only his deceased wife Cynthia Aita, according to McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>Some possibilities arose by looking at Facebook, including a Robert Aita Jr. but so far subjects contacted in Pennsylvania and Florida said he wasn&#8217;t their relation, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Aita is a U.S. Army veteran, and if no family is located to claim his remains, he would be covered for burial under the Operation At Ease program established by the coroner&#8217;s office in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>McLeod says they are developing information Aita may have come from Chicago and\u00a0 was the son of a pediatrician. He&#8217;s learned the father and son founded a youth camp in East Troy, Wisconsin and is pursuing that lead.<\/p>\n<p>McLeod asks anyone who may have known him who has any information regarding possible relatives of Aita to contact his office at 360-740-1376.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS \u2013 Authorities are turning to the public for help to find the relatives of a Centralia man who died last month Robert Aita, 63, passed away at Providence Centralia Hospital on Oct. 3 of natural causes, according to Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod. Among his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-22400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22405,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions\/22405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}