Memorial Day Services are planned throughout the area. The following includes information we have received about the services but it is not an all inclusive report as not everyone shared their schedule with this newspaper.
Services will be held at Superior’s Evergreen Cemetery starting at 10 a.m. at the grave of the unknown soldier in the east cemetery. A retired chaplain who was raised in Superior, Stan Copeland, will give the memorial address.
The Spring Creek Cemetery program will begin at 1 p.m. and include two quilt of valor presentations.
The Webber Cemetery service will begin at 11 a.m.
In the Lawrence area Memorial Day services are planned for the Sacred Heart Cemetery at 9:15, St. Stephens Cemetery at 9:35, Evergreen Cemetery at 10:25 and Oak Creek Cemetery at 10:45.
The Nelson American Legion Post will conduct services at the Salem Cemetery at 8:30, Nora Cemetery at 9:30, Nelson Cemetery at 10:30, and the Veterans Plaza in downtown Nelson at 11:30. A meal open to the public will follow at the Nelson Legion Building.
As part of the Memorial Day activities at Nelson Quilts of Valor will be presented to three veterans who honorably served our country in various services and theaters of operation. They will go to Darrell Jensen, senior master sergeant retired, Norman Reeve, senior master sergeant United States Air Force retired, and Ken Hamel, U.S. Army retired, at The quilts will be presented at 2 p.m. in the Nelson Community Center
Their friends, families and the entire community has been invited to help honor the veterans and hear their stories.
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