Memorial Day services at Ortona Cemetery

By Special to the Lake Okeechobee News

Posted 6/3/19

GLADES COUNTY — The 2019 Memorial Day Services were hosted by the Farris H. Davis American Legion Post 299. Commander, Jennifer Cook presided over the ceremony. Invocation and benediction were …

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Memorial Day services at Ortona Cemetery

Posted Monday, June 3, 2019 10:03 am

By Special to the Lake Okeechobee News

GLADES COUNTY — The 2019 Memorial Day Services were hosted by the Farris H. Davis American Legion Post 299. Commander, Jennifer Cook presided over the ceremony. Invocation and benediction were presented by Pastor Charley Watts. The opening ceremony was presented by the Glades County Sheriff Dave Hardin’s Color Guard. Auxiliary Unit 299 presented two Quilts of Valor one to the speaker Jeanne Nadeau who is the American Legion Auxiliary District 13 president, and the other to Donald Michaels, Army Specialist K-4, Air Defense 1st Battalion, 65th Infantry.