| Middletown Memorial Day Parade Forming Plans |
| Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:33:45 AM - Middletown Ohio |
 Last meeting of the Memorial Day Parade in
Middletown will be Thursday May 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm at the VFW Canteen on Dixie
Highway in Middletown Ohio.
The parade will be held May 25, leaving
Smith Park at 10 a.m. and making its way down Verity Parkway to Woodside
Cemetery, where a ceremony will be held.
According to the Middletown Area Memorial
Day Association, the featured speaker for the parade this year will be Gordon
Ellis, chief of police in Franklin. Sam Ashworth, the former head of the
Middletown Historical Society, will be the master of ceremonies, and Father
John Civille of Holy Family Parish will give the invocation and Benediction.
The Madison High School Marching Band will
play the national anthem, while Jamie Osborne and Ruth Clark will be the
featured soloists, and local musician Chuck Evans will play “Amazing Grace”
on trumpet.Flute
Other participants will include honor
guards from the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, which will lay the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier
at Woodside.
The grand marshal of the parade will be
William Riggs, United States Air Force
veteran from the Korean War and whose family founded the
Herr-Riggs Funeral Home in Middletown.
The committee is looking for a a few
people with a classic car or convertible who would be willing to help
drive the Grand Marshall, Master of Ceremonies, Soloists, and Minister. For
more information on the parade, call Ken Wills at (513) 424-8119 or 423-6017.
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