Honoring Our Heroes: Memorial Day in New Bethlehem 🇺🇸💐🎖️

PHOTOS: Thank you to everyone who joined us today for the 2025 Community Memorial Day Service, presented by Walter W. Craig Post 354 of the American Legion. Due to the weather, our community came together indoors to pay tribute to the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. ❤️🤍💙

Special appreciation goes to our Master of Ceremonies, Terry George 🎤 and our Featured Speaker, Pastor Don Jeffers ✝️ for their heartfelt leadership and inspiring words. We are also deeply grateful for the support of Senator Scott Hutchinson, Clarion County Commissioner Braxton White, and New Bethlehem Mayor, the Rev. Dr. Gordon V. Barrows who joined us in honoring our veterans. 🙏🎖️

A sincere thank you to Redbank Valley High School Band and Special K Barbershop group for their patriotic music as well as the New Bethlehem First Baptist Church ⛪ for graciously hosting the ceremony.

We honored our Departed Veterans from the following wars and conflicts:

CIVIL WAR
• Tribute to Companies A & D of the 103rd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers ⚔️

WORLD WAR I
• Walter W. Craig
• Franklin Cramer
• Henry Barnett Crawford
• Walter Silverling
• Goldie Bowser

WORLD WAR II
• Glenn Anthony
• William Harold Bish
• Adrian Blain Blose
• Calvin Burford
• Wallace L. Burford
• Russell Arnold Buzard
• Robert P. Cathcart
• Jack E. Collett
• Clair Hartzell, Jr.
• Russell Hilliard
• Russell E. Jacox
• Harlin Bryce Kelly
• Francis Markley
• Daniel M. Miles
• Donald Elvern Miller
• Norman Oravic
• Clair Reinsel
• Charles M. Sheridan
• Donald Shick
• Kenneth Smith
• Joseph A. Stahlman
• Robert G. Stahlman
• Owen Sullivan
• Charles E. Truitt
• Melvin Wolfgang
• Dale R. Yoder

KOREAN CONFLICT
• Floyd J. Beichner
• David T. Krouse
• Daniel J. Raybuck
• Chauncey E. Shick
• Donald L. Smith
• Norman F. Wolbert
• James W. Fink
• Henry Niederreiter
• Paul Schreckengost
• Hilton G. Shick
• James E. Wilson

VIETNAM CONFLICT
• Richard C. Alexander
• Robert J. Black
• Lawrence N. Dubia
• Gary G. Gray
• Valentine A. Ochs
• Henry Baldwin
• Andrew T. Brown
• Ronald E. Dascombe, Jr.
• Ronald Knight
• Joseph Torzok
• Wayne Weaver (Killed by Hostile Action while serving on the U.S.S. Stark, Persian Gulf) 🚢

DESERT STORM
• Frank J. Walls
• Steven E. Atherton

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (Afghanistan)
• Joseph Garrison 🪖

Thank you all for honoring the legacy of our fallen heroes. Your presence and respect help ensure we never forget their sacrifice. 🌟🇺🇸🕊️

*Photos courtesy of Liz Harmon & Ayla Nolan of TechReady Professionals & RedbankValley.org 📸

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