Salute to Service

Salute to Service

 

 

 

The Ossian Memorial Day parade will be held through downtown Ossian, weather permitting, at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 27.

The route will begin at the Ossian City Park and travel past Ossian Senior Hospice, and then down Main Street to the post office. It will then proceed back to Wild Woods Event Center.

Following the parade, at approximately 11 a.m., a Memorial Day program will be held at Wild Woods Event Center.

Any veteran who would like to march or ride in the parade should meet at the City Park at 10:15 a.m. Cars, bikes, motorcycles, horses, and walkers are all welcome to join the parade.

Prior to the late-morning festivities, veterans will visit area cemeteries. The cemetery schedule begins at Bethany Lutheran (7:45 a.m.), and continues on to First Lutheran (8 a.m.), Stavanger Lutheran (8:15 a.m.), Silver Springs – to honor those lost at sea (8:30 a.m.), Hillside Cemetery (8:45 a.m.), Bloomfield (9 a.m.), Castalia Veterans Memorial (9:15 a.m.), Pleasant View (9:30 a.m.), Centennial (9:45 a.m.), and St. Francis DeSales Cemetery (10 a.m.).

A final memorial salute will be held at the Ossian Veterans Memorial at Carey’s Park in Ossian.

 

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