Christophe Emanuel Jones, a 63-year-old man from Elgin, died unclaimed by his family and served in the U.S. Army. The Symonds-Madison Funeral Home in Elgin stepped in to handle the services for Jones as part of their nonprofit Operation LOVE (Love Our Veterans Elgin), which conducts funerals for local vets who have no family members in the area without their intervention. The funeral was held at the wake and burial with military honors at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. Jones was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Hubert and Estelle Jones. His funeral was attended by a crowd of strangers and members of Rolling Thunder, a nonprofit veterans advocacy group.