Donald K. McGuire is listed as a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/campnelson.asp.  He was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in 1931. Specialist Third Class McGuire served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. McGuire married in 1953 and graduated from Western Kentucky University. In college he played basketball and started the clean-cut singing group, The Hilltoppers. During the 1950s the quartet had nineteen hit songs on Billboard and performed at U.S. and international venues. The group was inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame in 2013. McGuire died September 7, 2018.

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