Valley Girl Views: Lest We Forget

An Index Of Stories & Photos Of Those Who Didn't Make It Home

And A Closer Look At Some Of The Memorials Erected For them.

Find A List Of This Years Memorial Day Events By Town

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2024/05/memorial-day-parades-ceremonies.html

[I did not get a chance to update this for 2025, but perhaps the links will still provide information, or guide you in where to look]

Here's a look at various history and stories related to Memorial Day, in our area:

Remembering Early Memorial Days

Photos and stories from our local towns events

On May 28th 1946, The Valley flooded, severely. In all of the stories I read, Memorial Day Services went on as planned - serious flooding did not stop the ceremonies. In Lewisburg, a radio station mistakenly announced they had been cancelled, but the residents showed up anyway (and the ceremony had never been cancelled)

A Plaque at Milton High School lists the students who gave their lives in World War II

Nurse Helen Fairchild, for whom the Watsontown Bridge is named, grew up in Allenwood, and died while serving as a nurse in France during the first world war.

Wallace Fetzer

When Milton gave one of their own, in World War I

Lt. Roland Ritter

When Muncy Gave One Of Their Own in World War I

Sgt John Danneker

Williamsport, PA

Medal of Honor Recipient

George H. Ram er of Lewisburg, Killed in Action in Korea, 1951

Capt. Simon Cool

The Marker Along The Rail Trail

Ceylon Miller

WWII

From Mooresburg Pa

See the ceremony for him at the Mooresburg Church, 2024, here.

The History Of Wearing Poppies For Remembrance Day

Five Local Boys Were Killed by One Shell, in 1918

When 18 Local Boys Were Brought Home For Burial, 1947

The 18 From The Sunbury Area Who Gave Their Lives in World War I

Remembering Those Lost
In World War I
Montour County Pa

Building Memorial Park

In Danville Pa

& The Monuments there

Remembering Those Lost

In World War II

Montour County Pa

Two Soldiers Monuments - One in Jersey Shore, and one in McElhattan, are fashioned from columns from the original Pennsylvania Capitol, which was destroyed by fire in 1897. Three of those columns are now in North Central Pa.

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-capitol-columns-where-are-they-now.html

The Memorial To The 19 Who Gave Their Lives In WWI & WW2 from the Watsontown Area

The Memorial To The 6

From Montgomery

Who Died in WW1

The Fox-Knapp Memorial

Milton Pa

As listed on the World War I Memorial in Danville Pa

Killed

George Bloch • Charles C. Cotner • Burgess A. Gibson

James M. Gibson • Fred John Mayan Jr. • George J. Michaels

Earl B. Mohr • Paul T. Shultz • Frank W. Sidler

Karl Groff West • John S. Winner

As Listed In The WW2 Memorial Dedication

In Danville Pa

Killed:

Frederick H. Bente, Harry C. Bower, Paul Boyer, Adam E. Brown, John C. Brush, Harry C. Bryer, Joseph R. Burkland, John Consini, Clarence R. Corey, Calvin C. Delbo, Steven Delbo, George Dietz, Joseph Dineen, Earl W. Elliot, Joseph A Gerst, Howard Huntington, Howard B Jenkins, Bernard Kirkendall, Valentine Kmieckinkski,John W. Kreigh, Billy A Krowse, Howard L. Krum, Roy A Krum. George Labiak, Frederick J. Ledger, Keith H. Leech, John H. Lobach, James W. Long, Warren F. Lowery, Robert E. Lynn, James H. McVey, Harry S. Mason, William C. Meadville, Ceylon A. Miller, Martin Miller, James L. Monahan, Dorrance T. Muffly, Arthur C. Oberdorf, Earl W. Pooley, Grant M. Pursel, Arthur A. Richert, Elias J. Sweitzer, John L. Tanner, Dunning Tupper, Robert Vogt, Joseph F. Ward, Robert B. Ward, Bernard G. Wargo, William H. Woll, LaCounte Wray, William H. Wyant Jr

Remembering The Maine. In 1898, more than 200 Navy Crew Men & Officers died when a ship exploded off the banks of Cuba. The explosion triggered the start of the Spanish American War. When the ship was pulled up from the Ocean Floor in 1912, parts were sent to both Danville, and Scranton, to be used in Memorials.