WW I Vets recognized by Sunbury Halter & Saddle

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Last Fri­day after­noon, mem­bers of Sun­bury Hal­ter & Sad­dle 4-H Club gath­ered with sev­eral mem­bers of Amer­i­can Legion Ben­son Hough Post 457 at Sun­bury Memo­r­ial Park to place mark­ers and flags on the graves of World War I veterans.

The World War I sol­diers that 4-Hers hon­ored at Friday’s ceme­tery ser­vice were: Sergeant Harry Edgar Lake, Otis Kim­ball Baker, Pri­vate Hosea Frank Jones, Pri­vate Arnold M. Jones, Sergeant 1st Class Edwin L. Schooler, William A. Schooler, Cor­po­ral Rudolph O. Bur­rer, Pri­vate Wilbur B. DeWitt, Cor­po­ral Merle Williamson, PFC Carl Ernest Olinger, 1st Lieu­tenant Harry J. Loar, Pri­vate Eber C. Loar, Pri­vate Nel­son S. King, Pri­vate Charley Lee Bar­ney, Pri­vate Hughie Boggs, William Mer­rill Brill­hart, Sergeant Charles Ward, George Glen Per­fect, Frank Austin Hoover, Pri­vate William Ralph Mallerne, First Class Albert Steg­ner, Band Sergeant Over­ton Theodore McDon­ald, Sec­ond Class Fred Lam­ont Kemp­ton, Richard Ben­jamin Paul, Pri­vate Ike Allen Fairchild and Cor­po­ral Harold L. McMillan.

The 4-Hers read about each sol­dier and where they served and placed flag hold­ers for those who didn’t have a marker. Details of their ser­vice is listed on < bigwalnuthistory.org >.

Club advi­sor Suzanne Allen said fol­low­ing the ser­vice at the ceme­tery, all vet­er­ans and fam­i­lies were invited to a potluck sup­per at the Sun­bury Town Hall. Mem­bers of the 4-H Club fur­nished the food and drinks.

“Since we only have a par­tial list of World War I sol­diers, we’d like to know of oth­ers that can be included in another ser­vice next year,” Allen said. “We will also do Berk­shire, Tren­ton and Porter town­ship ceme­ter­ies in May. We’ve done Genoa Town­ship and Galena veteran’s graves, but if there were any sol­diers missed, please let us know.”

Sun­bury Hal­ter & Sad­dle 4-H Club is work­ing with the Big Wal­nut Area His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety and Amer­i­can Legion Post 457 on the sol­dier ceme­tery project.

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