A group of Chief Senachwine DAR members held wreath-laying ceremonies, using the America 250! Patriot Memorial Service, as they honored veterans on Veterans Day.

First to be honored was Navy Capt. John P. Cromwell, a WWII submarine captain, who went down with his submarine rather than be captured since he knew critical information he didn’t want to fall into enemy hands. Cromwell was born in Henry and is honored with a torpedo monument at the Henry Central Park.

Member Nancy Gillfillan played a Native American wooden flute to open the ceremony and closed with the playing of ‘Taps.’

Wreath-laying and the Patriot Memorial Service, led by Chapter Chaplain, Diana Williamson, and flute music were repeated at the Henry Cemetery as the group honored three subjects: Civil War Soldier Lt. Peter Wykoff, his mother Daughter of a Revolutionary War Soldier Elizabeth Wikoff and Clarissa McManners, also a daughter of a Revolutionary War soldier as well as a member of the preceding Henry DAR chapter.

Others honored at the Henry Cemetery were soldiers who fought in WWI, specifically Verne Griner, whose grave the CSC chapter has been tasked to tend to.

Also honored were additional armed forces members who served in the Civil War, WWI, WWII and the Korean War.