Multiple communities are holding services Monday to observe and honor all U.S. military personnel who died in service.
The annual Dover Memorial Day Service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Maple Grove Cemetery by American Legion Post 205. The Dover High School Marching Band will get the event start by marching to the cemetery from Dover High School at 9:45 a.m. The high school’s Ars Nova singers will perform, and students will read Flander’s Field and the Gettysburg Address. The guest speaker will be the First Vice Commander of the Ohio American Legion Gary Cox.
The Twin City Memorial Day services will take place at six locations starting at 8 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cemetery and concluding at 11:30 a.m. at Newport Methodist Church. The Claymont Band will provide music. The guest speaker is retired Judge Brad Hillyer.
The American Legion Post 494 in Sugarcreek has several Memorial Day ceremonies planned, starting at the Veteran’s Memorial in Walnut Creek. They will continue at Dundee Cemetery around 8:30, at Eastlawn Cemetery in Sugarcreek around 9:15, and at 10:30 a.m. at Union Hill Cemetery at the grave of Homer Weiss. The Sugarcreek ceremony will include the Garaway Band and guest speaker Jason Thornton, Marine veteran and director of Tuscarawas County Veterans Services.
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