o (132nd Annual) Parade – 10 a.m. Parade Chairman John Loftus. Line up 9:30 a.m. on Temple St. between Owego Police Station and First Presbyterian Union Church. Parade route: Temple to North to Main to Paige to Front to the Tioga County Veterans Memorials. Community organizations are encouraged to march or drive/ride in their vehicles to remember our Fallen Heroes.
o 10:45 a.m. (36th) Service of Remembrance at the Tioga County Veterans Memorial.
– Presentation of Colors by VFW Post 1371 Color GuGua
– National Anthem by the Owego Free Academy Marching Band
– Invocation and later Benediction by First Presbyterian Church Co-Pastors Reverends Bruce and Carolyn GillGille
– Wreath Placements:By DAR Karen Messersmith at the Tioga County Civil War Union Memorial. At the TCVM by Gold Star Families/Purple Heart snd Value Honor Recipients. They’ll select an Honored Name. Say Name Aloud. Thank the Fallen Hero for his sacrifice and service.Say a prayepr
– Flag presentations by Owego Elementary Students for two patriotic baskets as Vietnam Veteran Lou Sauerbrey reads the names of 175 Tioga County Fallen Heroes.
– Town of Owego Historian Peter Gordon reflects on the Civil War Section of Historic Evergreen Cemetery. Reads an excerpt from a Mom’s Letter to her Soldier son. Plus WWII Letter Home from late Marie Ward’s scrapboscr
– “Salute to America” medley and later “Navy” Song by OFA MarchingMarchi
– Tioga County Veterans Service Agency Director Mike Middaugh.
– Remembering Tioga County Veterans since last Memorial Day by Lou.
– Lost at Sea Ceremony on Court Street Bridge – Wreath cast into the Susquehanna River to remember Owego’s first WWII casualty Seaman First Class Delmar Dale Sibley still aboard the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor since Dec. 7, 1941. Rifle Salute by the VFW Honor Guard. Taps by Burglar Steve Palinosky
o Dawn – Flags at the TCVM lowered to half staff to remember the war dead. At noon flags raised to full staff to honor living veterans.
o Flags on the Court Street Bridge remember Tioga County Fallen Heroes especially the 44 from WWII inadvertently left off the first memorial. Now they have their own memorial.
o Pre-Memorial Day – Flag Detail Teams placed about 5,000 American Flags on veterans graves in 68 Tioga County cemeteries.
o 8 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Monday – Mary Beth Jones and JoAnn Walter read names of Tioga County soldiers in 68 cemeteries.
o 10:15 a.m. Monday – WEBO AM FM live coverage of the Service of Remembrance from the Tioga County Veterans Memorial.
