Wreaths Across America Day held at two local cemeteries

On Saturday, Dec. 16, members of local veteran remembrance groups gathered at both Old Liberty Cemetery and the Courtland Cemetery to place wreaths.

The occasion was the Wreaths Across America event which is a non-profit effort to place wreaths on veterans’ graves in military cemeteries. The program began in December of 2008 when the United States Senate resolved to make the second or third Saturday of December Wreaths Across America Day.

Some 103 wreaths were placed this day by members of the Trammel’s Trace chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution as led for the first time with two historical Cass County cemeteries by volunteer coordinator and vice regent Windy Addington Tompkins.

“We are here to remember not their deaths but their lives,” said Chapter Regent Carolyn Addington who conducted the ceremony prior to the placing of wreaths.

“It’s a beautiful tribute,” added one of the participants as he walked with a wreath.

The wreaths of green fronds and red bows were made possible by sponsors who included the Trammel’s Trace DAR, the Ark-La-Tex chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Gertrude Curtright of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Col. John West Chapter of Colonial Dames.

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Heads are bowed and the atmosphere is respectful as Carolyn Addington Tomkins of the Trammel’s Trace chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution offers prayer and story for the occasion of remembrance.

The family of Anita Lawson has found the headstone and is carefully placing a wreath and small U S. flags in memory of the veteran who is buried here.

A wreath of green fronds tied with a red ribbon has been placed on the headstone of Roy C. Winn of the Texas Infantry.The setting is Old Liberty Cemetery on FM 96.