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f MEMORIAL SERVICESF I -AT WEST 3HDDLETOX StTXDAY WERE IMPRESSIVETHKOUGHOITVery successful Memorial services which were of an impressive character were held at; the M, E. church, West Middleton Sunday. Their success was largely due to the zeal and untiring efforts of Uncle .George Lagan, a surviving vet€*ran of the interstate conflict. Of this war but a handful of vet-r eran survive in that locality. They are George Logan, X or win McKay, Thomas Sharp, and James Pavey. It was decided to repeat the service .next year. An invitation waa re- , ceived tp attend the Memorial Day' services at Kokomo.The feature of the occasion was an address by G. W_ Freeman.He is the son of «t Civil war veteran and told of remembering how his father instructed him when a boy the meaning of the G. A. R. •button, the flag the Memorial tribute and instructed him in lessons of patriotism. He said that each year his* father would gather a has. ket of flowers and trudge to the! cemetery to lay loving tribute up-1 on the graves of his fallen com- j racles. 31 r. Freeman paid deserved j tribute to the families who gave up their precious ones in the World war. The program for the ocea- I sion included;Devotional John Trees of Kokomo; quartet composed of Mrs, Howard Ramseyer, Mrs. Will Haskell, Eldon Caldwell and Lora Horn, It's My Flag Too, reading, Miss Frances Gorton, “Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:“A flag drill and song, “I Salute Old Glory, by eighteen children; reading by Mrs. { Bums and impersonation by*Uncle George Logan and grandson, “This, is Why; reading, Mrs. J. a Stone/ j “The Little Bronze Button; instrumental solo, Loraine Haskell; address, George W, Freeman; benediction, Rev. Whitcamper.
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Tue, May 20, 1924
Page 10
Full Page
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