Nearly 1,700 wreaths will be placed at veterans’ graves today in Orleans County
Photo by Tom Rivers: Jackie Lonnen joined the volunteers for Wreaths Across America on Dec. 17, 2022 in Lyndonville. Volunteers will be placing about 450 wreaths at Lyndonville cemeteries.
Today is the annual Wreaths Across America and close to 1,700 wreaths will be placed at veterans’ graves. For the first time locally the effort will include Holley.
The Holley Rotary Club spearheaded the effort to have 200 wreaths put at veterans’ graves at Hillside Cemetery. The Rotary Club hoped to do at least 100 wreaths, but fundraising allowed the club to do 200, said Laura Bentley, coordinator of the effort.
Rotarians and community members will set the wreaths at vets’ graves at noon.
Medina will place 1,008 wreaths, with most at Boxwood Cemetery, said coordinator Kathy Blackburn. There will be a ceremony at Boxwood at noon before volunteers place the wreaths.
In Lyndonville, about 450 wreaths will be placed at Lynhaven Cemetery on Housel Avenue in Lyndonville with others put at Yates Center Cemetery, Robin Hill Estate, the Greenman Road Cemetery, Lott Cemetery on Angling Road and a cemetery on Marshall Road.
Lyndonville first joined the Wreaths Across America effort in 2019. Medina has been doing it since 2013.
Wreaths Across America is a nationwide program that honors those who have served by placing holiday wreaths on the graves of military personnel.
