Epworth will open our worship next Sunday, Nov. 14 with a tribute to our veterans, featuring PowerPoint slides while Doug Yetter plays a service song medley. Please take a look at the list of veterans we know about and have celebrated last year and let us know about updates or changes, including pictures, by Tuesday Nov. 9 to Pastor Bo and Debbie Hunt. (Or you can use the reply button.)
Army
Colonel John Barlow (1965 – 1987)
Spec. 5 Jim Blakeslee (1969 – 1971)
Spec. 5 Richard W. Coyle (1968–1970)
Sergeant David D’Albero (Air Corps – WWII)
Lieutenant Eugene D’Albero (Air Corps – WWII)
Intelligence Spec. 4 Dan Foskey (1988 – 1992)
Spec. 5 Bud Frampton (1967 – 1969)
First Lieutenant Ed Henriksen (1950 – 1953)
(National Guard) Staff Sergeant Charles “Fred” Kirschman (1960 – 1966)
Colonel Garland B Lewis (1940 – 1971)
Spec. 4 Coles Marsh (1964 – 1967)
Captain William Moore (1965-67)
Colonel James A. Mounts, Jr. Judge Advocate General Corp (1952 – 1984)
Sergeant Lloyd Murray (1943 – June 6, 1944, Normandy)
George William Myers (Civil War 1861-1863)
Captain Jacob Palmer (1971 – 1980)
Captain Ronald Paxton (1967 – 1970, served in Germany and Vietnam)
Michael Rodden (1917 – 1919)
Master Sergeant Martin L. Surface (1948 – 1978)
Sergeant Harvey Waltersdorf (1951 – 1953)
Major Joseph Waters (Vietnam War – 2 Tours of Duty)
Thomas Whitehead (Revolutionary War)
Navy
Lieutenant Gary Arrell (1962 – 1985)
Seaman Andrew M. Brangenberg (1961 – 1963
Petty Officer Ernest D’Albero (WWII)
Lieutenant Curtis E. Drury (1945 – 1952)
Lieutenant Commander Nick Foery (1962 – 1988)
Petty Officer 3rd Class Frederick Gentry (1968 – 1970)
Ensign Megan Elizabeth Gravette (2015 – present)
Lieutenants Vicki & Bo Gordy-Stith (1982 – 1993)
Radioman 2nd Class Charles “Chuck” Hartsock (1968 – 1972)
Petty Officer 3rd Class Mark Horne (1981 – 1985)
Machinist Mate 2nd Class Joseph Kulbaba (1944 – 1946)
Brothers meet in Pearl Harbor Joseph & Stanley Kulbaba (1944)
Lieutenant Charles “Chuck” Johnson (1959 – 1965)
Marvin Malone (served in Vietnam – photos destroyed in house fire)
Commander John Sprague (1990 – 2013)
Petty Officer 3rd Class Wally Sprague (1959 – 1965)
Captain Patti Trump (1970 – 1993) photos destroyed in a flood
Coast Guard
Boatswain Mate Michael Reynolds (1993 – 2001)
Marine Corps
Corporal Ashley J. Benson (1950 – 1954)
Corporal John M. Davis, III (1965 – 1968)
Captain Michael Holdridge (2011 – present)
First Lieutenant William Swain Lee (1961 – 64 – Reserves 1964 – 1970)
Sergeant John McMeeken (1954 – 1958)
Air Force
Airman Blake A. Benson (2014 – 2018)
Lieutenant Colonel George W Bockius, Jr. (1966 – 1991)
Master Sergeant Michael Cattafi, III (1989 – 2010)
Airman 2nd Class Michael Check (1960 – 1965)
Airman 2nd Class John Gauger
Master Sergeant Joy Glass (1978 – 2003)
Colonel Russ Mullen (1967 – 1997)
Master Sergeant Tom Safrit (1955 – 1981)
Chief Master Sergeant Fred Smith (1967 – 1992)
Robert Strum (Army Air Corp 1942 – 1945)
First Lieutenant Sharon Wert (1978 – 1991)