Last Bugle Call: Veterans who passed away since last Memorial Day [Updated]

Last Bugle Call, Memorial Day 2025, by Isabelle Lavertu [Photos by Tom Ganser]

Rifle salute, 2025

Last Bugle Call

We honor and remember the following Whitewater area veterans who passed away since last Memorial Day.  “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”  General George S. Patton.   

Taps
27 May 2024 – 26 May 2025

Joseph C. Bauer
Will D. Ensslin
Robert W. Fiskum
Charles A. Grover
Edward W. Hamilton
Leo J. Hansen
Donald J. Jacobs
John Kent, Jr.
Raymond Miles
Lee S. Murray
Patrick J. O’Connor
Ernest W. Regelein
Fred C. Traxler
Jack G. Trojan
Bradford L. Tuttle
 John D. Varnes
Robert K. Webb
Clifford M. Witte
Lloyd G. Worden
Lowell V. Youngs

We apologize if we have omitted the name of any veteran.  It is not intentional.  We only know what we see reported in the media and other sources.

Steven R. Smith, Adjutant, William Graham Post 173, Whitewater American Legion

Editor’s note: Updated on 5/28 to add current photos

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