Schedule set for Memorial Day observances in Orleans County

Photo by Tom Rivers: Jim Freas reads the names of veterans from Medina who have passed away since the last Memorial Day. It was part of a service at State Street Park in Medina on Memorial Day on May 29, 2023.

There will be parades and services for Memorial Day in Orleans County communities on Monday, May 26.

ALBION – The parade starts at 10 a.m. at Main Street near the Park Street intersection. From there the processional goes to East Avenue, and then to the middle school.

A service will be held in front of the middle school at approximately 11 a.m.

HOLLEY – A ceremony will start at 9 a.m. at the American Legion Post on Wright Street and will include patriotic music played by the Holley-Kendall Marching Band. From there veterans will march to Hillside Cemetery. Taps will be played and a wreath will be set at the grave of Jewell Buckman. After there will be a prayer service at the Catholic cemetery.

KENDALL – A ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 30, at the Kendall Community Park where there is a war memorial and gazebo. It is located on Kendall Road, across from the Kendall Elementary School. Kendall observes the holiday on May 30, which was the original day of Memorial Day. It was changed to the be the last Monday of May in 1968 to have a three-day weekend for federal employees.

LYNDONVILLE – A parade will start at 9 a.m. from the parking lot at the former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Lake Avenue and participants will march to the library for the ceremony which follows. (Participants in the parade should be at the start by 8:45 a.m.)

MEDINA – The parade will start at 11 a.m. at the Olde Pickle Factory building on Park Avenue and proceed to the State Street Park where a ceremony will be held at about noon.