{"id":51153,"date":"2026-05-20T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=51153"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:29:28","slug":"memorial-day-services-in-paulding-county-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/memorial-day-services-in-paulding-county-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Services in Paulding County Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Paulding VFW Memorial Day Programs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>9:00 a.m. \u2013 Rochester Cemetery, Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Pastor Ric Beals Speaker, Pastor of Paulding First Christian Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Boy Scout Troop 315 and Cub Scout Pack 1317<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Vocalist Dan Wilder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">VFW Post 587 Color Guard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">VFW Post 587 Auxiliary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>11:00 a.m. \u2013 Live Oak Cemetery, Paulding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Pastor Bud Larimore Invocation, Pastor of Oakwood and Melrose Community Churches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Capt. Guy Gruters Guest Speaker, United States Air Force Fighter Pilot, Prisoner of War over 5 years in Vietnam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Paulding High School Band<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Boy Scout Troop 315 and Cub Scout Pack 1317<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">VFW Post 587 Color Guard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">VFW Post 587 Auxiliary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Complimentary Lunch at VFW Post 587<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Memorial Day Observance Planned in Antwerp<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Antwerp VFW Post 5087 will host a Memorial Day observance on Monday, May 25<sup>th<\/sup> with a small parade leaving from the VFW and marching to the Riverside Veterans Memorial. A brief ceremony will follow at the memorial, with Mark Holtsberry serving as the guest speaker. Following the program, light snacks will be served at the VFW Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Memorial Day Services in Grover Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Grover Hill VFW will be hosting a Memorial Day Service on Monday May 25, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. at the Middle Creek Cemetery, 19367 Road 24 Grover Hill, OH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Village of Payne Memorial Day Parade &amp; Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Join the Village of Payne for a Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 25th. Going down Main Street at 9:30 a.m. with service following at Wiltsie Cemetery (CR-51, outside of the village between CR-94 &amp; SR-500).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulding VFW Memorial Day Programs 9:00 a.m. \u2013 Rochester Cemetery, Cecil Pastor Ric Beals Speaker, Pastor of Paulding First Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,1464],"tags":[26134,10434,16013,16600,5500,7110,13392,5342],"class_list":["post-51153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-history-community","tag-answerp-riverside-veterans-memorial-park","tag-antwerp-vfw","tag-grover-hill-vfw","tag-live-oak-cemetery","tag-memorial-day","tag-middle-creek-cemetery","tag-paulding-vfw","tag-rochester-cemetery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/American-Flag.jpg?fit=1600%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-dj3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 01:04:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51208,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51153\/revisions\/51208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}