Memorial Day events scheduled

Sedalia
• American Legion Post 642 will lead the Memåorial Day service at 10 a.m. Monday at Crown Hill Cemetery. Other veterans groups and JROTC will also participate in the program. W. Frank Prosser, adjutant for the American Legion, Department of Missouri, will be the speaker.
• The 40 & 8 will host its fifth annual flag retirement ceremony at noon Monday at Liberty Park. Several hundred flags will be burned. A picnic will follow in the main pavilion. Brats, hamburgers, hot dogs and soft drinks will be served. The meal costs $5 for adults and $3 for children 7 and younger. All proceeds will help the 40 & 8 provide nurses with scholarships, flags for downtown and assist veterans in need.
Dr. D and the Pacemakers and Jim Davis, a disc jockey, will provide music. Both are Vietnam veterans and members of the 40 & 8.
• The trustees of Mount Herman Cemetery Association will host its 15th annual Memorial Day Celebration at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the cemetery, four miles north of Sedalia on U.S. Highway 65. Eighty veterans who served in seven wars and in peacetime are buried in the cemetery.
The VFW Honor Guard will participate in the ceremony. A basket dinner will follow with tableware and drinks provided.
The annual cemetery association meeting will follow. For more information, call 827-3580.

Windsor
American Legion Post 82 and Windsor Four County Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2610 will conduct Memorial Day services at 11 a.m. Monday at Laurel Oak Cemetery in Windsor.

Higginsville
A ceremony is planned at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville at 1 p.m. Monday. Bryan Hunt, deputy director of the Missouri Veterans Commission, will speak. The cemetery is at 20109 Business Highway 13.

Knob Noster
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4195’s Honor Guard, Jack Andrade, Dave Gregory, Commander Dave Koehler and Bill Wheat will present the colors at the annual Memorial Day Celebration at 2 p.m. Monday at Knob Noster Cemetery. Flags were placed on the graves of the veterans by the Ladies Auxiliary. A brief meeting by the cemetery board will follow the presentation of the colors.  
         
Tipton
Edgar Cole Post 304, American Legion, will host services at 7:30 a.m. Monday at St. Andrew’s Catholic Cemetery, Tipton, and at 10 a.m. Monday at the grave of Edgar Cole at Tipton Masonic Cemetery. Cole was the first Tipton casualty in World War I. The post will place more than 400 flags on Thursday in St. Andrew’s Catholic, Tipton Masonic, Odd Fellow, Liberty and Moreau cemeteries.