Events in Upton on Memorial Day

Schedule of Events in Upton on Memorial Day Monday, May 30

Veterans’ Counsel

• John Robertson
• Robert Richard
• Russell Wood
• Donald Keniston
• David Kennedy
• Richard Kennedy

7:30 a.m. Meet at VFW

8:00 a.m. Lakeview Cemetery 

• Assemble at Lakeview Cemetery Gate on North Main Street
• Veteran’s Memorial
  • Firing Squad Steve Walsh – Officer of the Day
  • Prayer – Doug Keniston
  • Bugler – Andrew Oglesby

8:30 a.m. Maplewood Cemetery

• Rev. George S. Ball Gravesite
  • Prayer – Russell W. Wood
  • VFW and AL Firing Squad
• George L. Wood Gravsite
  • Prayer Donald Keniston
  • VFW and AL Firing Squad

9:00 a.m. Old Burial Ground Grove Street

• Reading Donna Desjardins

9:45 a.m. Parade Assembly Memorial School

• Parade Marshalls
  • Russell W. Wood
  • Joseph McMahon

10:00 a.m. Parade to Center of Upton

• Officer of the Day Steve Walsh
• • Miscoe 6th Grade Band under the direction of Lauren Amitrano
  • Miscoe 7th & 8th Grade Band under the direction of Nick LaPete
  • Nipmuc Regional HS Band under the direction of Simon Harding
• Town Organizations
• Officer of the Ceremony Russell W. Wood
• Fourth Verse of National Anthem
  • Joseph McMahon
• Invocation
  • Fr. Larry Brault – St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish
• Greeting of the Town
  • Jim Brochu – Chairman Upton Board of Selectmen
  • Bob Fleming – Selectman
  • Gary Daugherty – Selectman
• Music Selection
  • Nipmuc Regional High School Band
• “In Flanders Field”
  • Read by Girl Scout Allie Martin
• A Roll Call of the Deceased
  • World War One Monument
    • Russell W. Wood
    • Shawn Craig
• “Remember – Not To Forget”
  • Read by Lorrie Loeper and Whitney Loeper
• VFW Roll Call of the Deceased
  • WWII, Korea, Vietnam Monuments
    • Bob Fleming, Steve Wickstrom
• Benediction
  • Rev. Dr. Virginia Childs – United Parish of Upton
• National Anthem
  • Nipmuc Regional High School Band