The Ada VFW and American Legion will conduct the annual Memorial Day services, Monday, May 25, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Ada and at Preston Cemetery east of Alger on Monday.
The Ada service will begin at 2 p.m. at the monument near the chapel on the east side of the cemetery. The speaker will be Dave Archer who served in Vietnam.
The service in Preston will follow immediately afterward.
In Ada, there will be an invocation, a speaker, and youth going to Boys' and Girls' State will read the Gettysburg Address written by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and the poem "In Flanders's Field" written by John McCrae in1915.
Mackenzie Wills, going to Girls' State, will read "On Flanders Field." Austin Cheney, going to Boys' State, will read the Gettysburg Address.
The service will include the Ladies Auxiliary placing a wreath for each war, 13 of them, extending from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan.
The service will close with music by members of the Ada High School band, the firing of three vollys, and taps. The Preston service also includes the firing of three vollys and taps.
If it rains, the service will be held inside the VFW Post.
