Three services have been planned next week in Donley County to honor those who have served in the US armed forces.
A Veterans Day program will be held at Clarendon College on Thursday, November 11, at 7 p.m. in the Bairfield Activity Center.
Jack Moreman, a Korean War Veteran, will be the Master of Ceremonies. John Howard, MD, OIF Veteran, will be the guest speaker. The Clarendon College Choir will perform.
This program will honor veterans of all wars, and everyone in the community is invited to attend.
Hedley’s Adamson-Lane Post 287 of the American Legion will hold a Veterans Day service next Thursday, November 11, in the Rowe Cemetery at 10 a.m.
The Post will place flags on the graves of 220 veterans.
Lloyd Stice, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Clarendon, who was raised in Collingsworth County, will deliver the keynote address. Stice served in the US Army from 1966 to 1969.
Following the Rowe program, Hedley ISD will honor veterans with a meal and program at the school with a keynote address by Dick Bode of Alanreed, who was born in Holland, lived through five years of German occupation. Bode’s father worked with the Dutch Underground to provide hiding places for Jewish people.
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