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Memorial Day Ceremony Set at Oakwood Cemetery

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The annual Memorial Day Services conducted by the John C. Peterson Post 49 and James W. Sittler Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1126 will be May 28 at Oakwood Cemetery.

Special music will begin at 10:15 a.m. by the Warsaw Community High School band.

Combined color guards will post the colors.

The Pledge of Allegiance will be said, and Roy Bradbury, Post 49 commander, will provide the welcome.

Tom Everett, Post 49 and Post 1126 chaplain, will provide the invocation.

Richard Maron, Kosciusko County service officer, will provide the memorial address.

Mike Davis, Post 49 adjutant, and Larry Criswell, Post 1126 quartermaster, will provide a roll call of deceased veterans.

Dick Dobbins and Tom Everett will retire the flag. Everett also will provide the benediction.

Combined color guards will retire the colors.

After the colors have been retired, the program will proceed to the Gar Circle and Legion Circle No. 2 where a presentation of a wreath will be placed on Legion Circle No. 2 by Commander Roy Bradbury and Auxillary President Kelly Brubaker.

“Taps” will follow the presentation. The program will then be concluded at Legion Circles No. 1 and No. 3 where wreath presentations will take place at both circles with “Taps” to follow presentations.

A carry-in dinner will follow the program.