Celebrate • Honor • Remember
Fallen Veterans Honored At Memorial Day Service
Since 1968, the VFW Post 2712 has honored fallen Veterans with a special Memorial Day service, as well as (when inclement weather doesn’t interfere) creates an Avenue of Flags at Greenwood Cemetery, in Eureka.
Over the years, volunteers have come together to put up flags for the annual holiday, using flags that have been donated in honor of a fallen Veteran to VFW Post 2712.
This year’s Memorial Day service, held on Monday, brought together members of several local veterans’ organizations— including John C. Reed Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2712, the American Legion, and the Disabled American Veterans— to pay tribute to their fallen comrades for their valor and sacrifice.
In addition to veterans, community members gathered to remember and honor the service of America’s military men and women, past and present. A total of 21 fallen comrades were recognized at the 2026 Memorial Day service. Those veterans included: Marvin Dale Hollis, Larry Luman, Kenneth Northedge, Kenneth “Gary” Hind, Melvin G. Doane, Richard Lee “Dick” Randolph, Troy Louis Walker, Paul Arthur Heggemeier, Donald L. Elliott, Virgil Stuber, Harold “Lee” Howell, Greg Faulkner, Gary Lee Maloney, Bill Schouten, Walter Lee Dean, Barbara Louise Mistler, Leonard Abbey, John Henry Mock, Terry Jon Doerr, Donald Leroy Dir and Mark Allen Stevenson.
For more information about the VFW Post 2712 or regarding the Avenue of Flags, contact VFW Post 2712 Commander Don Scott, at 620-5836398.
