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Several events to mark Memorial Day
News · May 21, 2015


The community will remember fallen veterans on Monday, May 25, with a variety of Memorial Day events from downtown to the cemetery to the Hoover Complex, churches and schools.


• West Branch American Legion Chauncey Butler Post 514 will open the day at 8 a.m with brief services at Appreciation Park, East Main Street near Jack & Jill grocery store.

• At 9 a.m., the Legion will gather for Military Rites at West Branch Cemetery.

• Also at 9 a.m., St. Bridget’s Cemetery, Nolan Settlement, will host Memorial Day Mass. Everyone is invited and encouraged to bring lawn chairs to the church and cemetery, 2136 St Bridget’s Rd NE, Solon. For more information, contact Dawn Eckrich at 319-351-2218.

• At 10:30 a.m., the Legion will host a program in the gymnasium at West Branch High School. The program includes music by the high school band directed by Lisa Schrock, invocation and benediction by Chaplain Leif McGowan, keynote address by Ron Lashmit, the Ring of Honor, and Taps by Rachel Christian.

The Legion will also recognize veterans who died in the previous year: Al Wagner, Howard Carswell, Don Henderson, James Whipple, John Roth, James K Petersen, Thomas Budreau, Richard Spitler, Dan Gafeller and Lyle Stout.

• At 2 p.m. the Eastern Iowa Brass Band will perform a free concert on the front lawn of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum. Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.

In case of rain, the event will move to West Branch United Methodist Church, 203 N. Downey Street.

The 35-member band will perform from a repertoire which features original works for brass band, as well as arrangements of well known orchestral and wind band literature.

Currently on display at the Herbert Hoover Museum is the temporary exhibit, “The Making of the Great Humanitarian: Herbert Hoover and World War I.” For more information please call 319-643-5301.