Huge turnout to lay wreaths for veterans

FERNLEY — Two women took several steps backward after placing a wreath at the base of a headstone at the Northern Nevada Memorial Veterans Cemetery north of Fernley Saturday.Both women stood motionless, tears welling in their eyes.“I lost him last year,” said Dayton resident Deborah McGifford, whose husband of 36 years died in 2014.McGifford said her husband enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving for 20 years. She and her sister, Brenda Williford, who was visiting from Ala