Memorial Day observances announced
The Greene County Department of Veterans Affairs announced a schedule of services for Memorial Day.
• The Brooks-Crago American Legion Post No. 816 of Rices Landing will hold services.
A parade will begin at 2 p.m. at the post home and proceed to the Honor Roll between Hewitt Cemetery and Hewitt Presbyterian Church.
The participants will include Jefferson-Morgan High School band, Boy and Girl scouts of Rices Landing; and the Rices Landing Volunteer Fire Department.
Kit Watson, Pennsylvania Adjutant for the American Legion, will be the speaker for the ceremonies. There will be an honor guard and firing squad.
The service also will include the reading of General Logan’s Orders by Scot Lippencott, adjutant for the legion and the reading of “In Flanders’s Field” by Tonya Lippencott
The invocation and benediction will be by the Rev. Geoff Roch of the Hewitt Presbyterian Church of Rices Landing.
Following this service, another service will be held at the Crucible Cemetery Honor Roll.
The legion invites everyone to the post home following the service where the auxiliary will provide a light snack.
• The James R. Maxon American Legion Post No. 992 of Mt. Morris will hold services.
The post will be at the Kiger Cemetery at 11 a.m. with an honor guard and a firing squad. This will be followed immediately by a service at the Claughton Chapel Cemetery at 11:05 a.m. with an honor guard and firing squad.
• The Carmichaels Honor Guard consisting of the Carmichaels American Legion Post No. 400, Carmichaels VFW Post No. 3491, Greensboro VFW Post No. 6303 and Bobtown VFW Post No. 5567 will participate and have services.
A service will be held at noon at Garard Fort Cemetery with Dr. Lawrence M. Stratton, director of The Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership at Waynesburg University, as speaker. The service will include an honor guard and firing squad.
A service also will be held at 1 p.m. at the Greensboro VFW Honor Roll with a salute to the deceased and placement of the wreath to at the monument. There will be an honor guard and firing squad.
• The Carmichaels Honor Guard, consisting of members of Carmichaels American Legion Post No. 400, Carmichaels VFW Post No. 3491, Greensboro VFW Post No. 6303; and Bobtown VFW Post No. 5567; will participate in services.
A service will be held at 10 a.m. at the Nemacolin Honor Roll.
A service will be held at 11 a.m. at the Crucible Honor Roll with state Rep. Pam Snyder, D-Jefferson, and Robert W. Teagarden III, Army veteran combat specialist with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, serving as speakers.
The National Anthem will be sung by Chris Sheldon and invocation and benediction will be presented by the Rev. Frank Vucic of the Sugar Grove Baptist Church in Greensboro.
A parade will be held at 12:30 p.m. from the American Legion Post No. 400 in Carmichaels to the Laurel Point Cemetery. Frank Ricco and the American Legion Post Band will participate.
At 1 p.m., Martin J. Yoskovich, Carmichaels funeral director, will speak at a service at Laurel Point Cemetery.
Invocation and benediction will be presented by the Rev. Reagan Fike of the First Christian Church of Carmichaels.
At 1:30 p.m., lunch will be provided by the ladies auxiliary at the Carmichaels VFW Post No. 3491.
• Waynesburg VFW Post No. 4793 will hold a service at 11 a.m. at the post home on Lincoln Street with county Commissioner Blair Zimmerman as the speaker.
Veronica DeAngelo will sing the National Anthem; others taking part in the service will be the James E. Farrell American Legion Post No. 330 and the Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 123 of Waynesburg.
At 2:30 p.m., the VFW Post No. 4793, James E. Farrell American Legion Post No. 330 and the DAV Chapter 123 of Waynesburg also will participate in a dedication of a veterans monument in Aleppo, at the Aleppo Brethren Church.
• The Filer-Sadlek Post No. 954 of Jefferson, will have services.
At 11 a.m., a service will be held at Mather Honor Roll at the Post Office with Pastor Brad Edgar of the Clarksville Christian Church as the speaker.
The service will include a salute to the deceased and placement of the wreath at the Honor Roll.
At 11:30 a.m., a service will be held at the Jefferson Cemetery with a salute to the deceased and wreath placement at the Honor Roll.
At noon, a service will be held at the veterans’ section of the Greene County Memorial Park, with a salute to the deceased and wreath placed at the base of the American Flag.
• The James R. Maxon American Legion Post No. 992 of Mt. Morris will have services.
At 10 a.m., a service will be held at the Mt. Morris United Methodist Church. At 11 a.m., a parade will be held from the Mt. Morris United Methodist Church to Dunkard Creek with a salute to the deceased and the throwing of a flower into the creek in memory of the Navy.
At noon, a ceremony will be held at the Cedar Grove Cemetery, with the speaker to be announced at a later date. It will be followed by the placement of the wreath at the monument.