Cemetery Walk At Oakwood Set For Sept. 14
September 3, 2024 at 8:29 p.m.
A Walk Through Our Past will be presented at Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw on Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
This program is a partnership between Oakwood Cemetery and Kosciusko County Historical Society.
Attendance is free.
Tours through the cemetery begin at 10 a.m. and will be guided to the graves of 12 citizens who have contributed to the development and growth of Kosciusko County through the years. Local actors will be stationed at each gravesite to portray the honored citizens with a short presentation about that person’s contribution to local history. Those being honored are Robert Lichtenwalter, John B. Chapman, Justin O. Zimmer, Jane Cowen, Dr. and Mrs. Clifford Dubois, Mayor John and Mrs. Annie Hansman, Jacob Boss, Thomas Hubler, Homer Rodeheaver and Virginia Asher.
Tours will continue until 2:30 p.m., with a break between noon and 12:30 p.m.
A genealogist from the Historical Society will be in the cemetery chapel to answer questions. Guides will be available to drive golf carts for those attendees with mobility issues.
Attendees are invited to bring picnics. Picnic tables will be provided.
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A Walk Through Our Past will be presented at Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw on Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
This program is a partnership between Oakwood Cemetery and Kosciusko County Historical Society.
Attendance is free.
Tours through the cemetery begin at 10 a.m. and will be guided to the graves of 12 citizens who have contributed to the development and growth of Kosciusko County through the years. Local actors will be stationed at each gravesite to portray the honored citizens with a short presentation about that person’s contribution to local history. Those being honored are Robert Lichtenwalter, John B. Chapman, Justin O. Zimmer, Jane Cowen, Dr. and Mrs. Clifford Dubois, Mayor John and Mrs. Annie Hansman, Jacob Boss, Thomas Hubler, Homer Rodeheaver and Virginia Asher.
Tours will continue until 2:30 p.m., with a break between noon and 12:30 p.m.
A genealogist from the Historical Society will be in the cemetery chapel to answer questions. Guides will be available to drive golf carts for those attendees with mobility issues.
Attendees are invited to bring picnics. Picnic tables will be provided.