Ceremonies Mark Memorial Day
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 02:30 p.m., May 21, 2008
Updated 02:30 p.m., May 21, 2008
There’s no shortage of events in honor of this year’s Memorial Day weekend in and around Emporia.
Memorial Day will be observed at Maplewood Lawn Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Monday with the “Last Soldier Ceremony” by the Eighth Kansas Infantry Civil War re-enactment group. Flags and floral arrangements will be available.
American Legion Post No. 342 at Olpe will conduct memorial services at six area cemeteries on Memorial Day. Each service will be opened with prayer by local clergy and music from the Olpe High School band. Post Commander Bill Saueressig will speak. Post Chaplain Arlen Stueve and Honorary Chaplain Fred Burenheide will read the names of the veterans who are buried at each cemetery.
A color guard and firing squad made up of Legion members will salute the departed veterans. An avenue of flags will be set up at each cemetery for the service and each veteran’s grave will be decorated with a flag.
The first service will be at Fairview at 9 a.m., followed by: Maydale, 9:30 a.m.; St. Joseph, 10 a.m.; Pleasant Ridge at 10:30 a.m.; Lutheran at 11 a.m. and Pleasant View (Line) at 11:30 a.m.
In the event of heavy rain, a service will be at the Legion Post Building at 10:30 a.m.
The Allen American Legion also plans Memorial Day services at seven cemeteries in northern part of Lyon County.
The Moreland Edmunds Clayton Thompson Post 389, Allen American Legion, will conduct services at these times at the following cemeteries on May 26: Comisky, 8:45 a.m.; Agnes City, 9:15 a.m.; Bushong, 9:45 a.m.; Allen, 10:20 a.m.; Admire, 10:45 a.m.; Ivy, 11:15 a.m.; Pleasant Ridge, 11:50 a.m.
The Post Home in Allen will be the site of a basket dinner following the services, at 12:30 p.m. The dinner is open to the public.
The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve will offer a weekend of family events at the preserve north of Strong City. From 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, living history interpreters at the preserve will demonstrate historic haying and raking methods using draft horses and 19th century machinery.
Sunday will be children’s day. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., children can pet farm animals, feed the chickens, milk a cow and clean the stalls. Kids can earn a Spring Hill Ranch Certificate after doing chores.
Monday will school day. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the schoolmarm will give penmanship lessons, and teach spelling and reading from the McGuffey Readers at the one-room Lower Fox Creek School.
A 6.4-mile bus tour of the preserve’s back country is available at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. daily from April 26 to Oct. 26. The cost if $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 5 to18. There is no charge for children 4 and under.
Call (620) 273-8494.
Information on the ceremony at Emporia’s All Veterans Memorial will be publish in Thursday’s Gazette.
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