Please join Lima 4-H Club as they carry on the tradition of remembering veterans that have died and are buried in Lima Center and Utters Corner Cemeteries in Lima Township. Community members are encouraged to come to the Lima Center Cemetery (located on the northeast corner of Hwy 59 and Lima Center Road) for a 12:00pm Flag Ceremony on SATURDAY, May 23, 2026. Club members have planned a brief ceremony to include presentation of the flag, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem and a short poem, followed by the placing of flags at Veteran’s graves. Light refreshments will be available for participants. Upon completion those who wish may join the 4-H in placing flags at Veteran’s graves at Utters Corners Cemetery on W Townline Road (near the northwest corner of County Line Road and W Townline Road in Lima Township).
Memorial Day
VFW Post 5470 and American Legion Post 173 to offer Memorial Day observance
VFW Post 5470 and American Legion Post 173 will offer a solemn observance in memory of deceased veterans and their families at 11:00 a.m. on Memorial Day, May 28, 2018, at the Veteran’s building on Whitewater’s Wisconsin Ave. In addition, Badger boys and girls graduates receiving VFW and Legion scholarships and students receiving Legion Americanism awards will be recognized.
Legion Adj. Steven Smith is the Master of Ceremonies along with CMDR Michael Davenport of the VFW. The Middle School and High School bands will lead the parade from the First Citizens Bank to the Veteran’s building at 10:30 a.m., where the high school band will provide a selection of patriotic music at the ceremony. Deacon Hector Villarreal of St. Patrick Catholic parish will provide the invocation and benediction. The memorial speaker for the observance will be Rep. Don Vruwink, Wisconsin Assemblyman from Milton, representing the 43d District.
The observance will include a reading of the names of Whitewater veterans who have passed during this year and the solemn playing of taps and a rifle salute by the combined Honor Squad in their memory
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