Local memorial day services

◼ Paying their respects: Local memorial day services - Jessica Cejnar/The Times-Standard

Humboldt County veterans and their families will take time out of a busy Memorial Day weekend to honor their fallen comrades on Monday at Ocean View Cemetery in Eureka. On Sunday, the Trinidad Civic Club will pause for a short ceremony at the Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse to remember those who were lost or buried at sea.

In addition to the names of those lost at sea being read, U.S. Coast Guard planes will fly over the town during the ceremony, Odom said. A bagpipe player will play, a poem will be read and a vocalist will sing. The ceremony will also include the ringing of a bell. Odom said Trinidad's mayor will ring the bell 12 times in honor of those who were lost.

”It's very short, but it's very emotional,” said Anne Odom, who read the names at the ceremony last year. “Most of that time is used reading all those names. We read about 200 names.”
Trinidad's ceremony begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Memorial Lighthouse at Edwards and Trinity streets.

On Monday, Ocean View Cemetery will dedicate its Avenue of the Flags to the North Coast Honor Flight, which flew veterans to Washington, D.C., to view the World War II memorial, said cemetery administrator Don McCombs. The North Coast Community Honor Guard will assist with raising the colors, he said, and the Humboldt Harmonaires will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” McCombs added that local bagpipe player Roddy Ross will also play.

”Roddy Ross will do a bagpipe march, and he also will do 'Amazing Grace,' which on the bagpipe gets everybody's heart in their throat,” McCombs said.

The service begins at 11 a.m. at Ocean View Cemetery at 3975 Broadway St. in Eureka. Hill said volunteers will remove the flags from the graves at about 3 p.m. following the service.

◼ Memorial Day celebrations - The Times-Standard

Eureka: Eureka cemeteries plan a special Memorial Day patriotic program for the community at Ocean View Cemetery's Veterans Garden at 11 a.m. Monday

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