Memorial Day ceremonies set for Orleans County

By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 23 May 2026 at 8:18 am

Photo by Tom Rivers: These veterans in the honor guard carry the colors along the parade route in Medina during last year’s Memorial Day parade on May 26, 2025. The parade started at the Pickle Factory on Park Avenue, then onto Main Street and East Center Street to State Street Park.

Communities in Orleans County are planning parades and services for Memorial Day. All of observances are on Monday, except in Kendall which has its service on Saturday, May 30. That 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.

• 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.

The Holley-Kendall Marching Band will then lead the way down 31 to the traffic light and then down South Main to Hillside Cemetery where the first of three services will take place. The Jewell Buckman gravesite across South Holley Road is the next service and then the Catholic cemetery for final prayer service.

• KENDALL – A ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 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.

• 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. (For veterans who wish to march in the parade or ride the trolley, they should arrive in the Lake Avenue parking lot no later than 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.