TURNER – A memorial service was conducted by Turner Memorial Post 111, American Legion, on May 25 at the World War I and II Memorial Monument. Commander Warren K. Clark spoke on the origins of Memorial Day and Chaplain Paul Bernard gave the invocation.

Purple Heart recipient, Gary Brooks, Military Order of the Purple Heart, laid the Wreath of Enduring Memory at the base of the memorial stone.

In commemoration of the World War I veterans from Turner who chartered the Turner Post in 1919, Bernard read the names of the deceased veterans: Forrest Austin, Harry Benson, Harold Bradford, Francis Bumpus, Fred Cole, William Dunn, John Fisher, Eldred Green, Edgar Harlow, Almon Lawrence, James Leadbetter, Ellis McKeen, Roy Merrell, Harry Newell, Ralph Pearl, Clarence Shorey, Carlos Shaw and George Talbot.

The post will now prepare for the Flag Day ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at Veterans Park in Lewiston. For more information, call 225-3285 or e-mail [email protected].