Local veterans featured in exhibit
BROKEN BOW - Are you looking for something to do this Thanksgiving weekend as a family? Check out an exhibit at the Custer County Historical Museum that features several local veterans.
The exhibit includes photos and information on where and when these veterans served. In addition, the museum has on display notebooks of local military personnel who served in WWI and WWII as well as a notebook on Ansley area soldiers of the Civil War.
Tammy Hendrickson, director of the museum, said the exhibit is to show support for veterans.
“Several people have come in, saying they heard it was here,” Hendrickson said. “It’s been well received.”
The exhibit was created by members of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Custer Chapter 41 and the DAV Auxiliary Unit 41. Hendrickson said the late Alice Ostrand was very instrumental in collecting the information used in the exhibit. Helping set it up were Judy Workman and Patsy Burnett, both who have family members featured.
Local veterans who are featured include John “Jack” Ostrand, Geroge Cybornon, Victor Burnett, Jerry Bigbee, Leonard McKenney, Howard Swinney, Joel Workman, Edith Deuel, William R. Schaad, Leroy W. Schaad, William W. Schaad, Lyle Lovitt, Raymond Arehart and Harold Coleman. Hendrickson said she thinks Workman and William W. Schaad are still on active duty.
Also in the exhibit is a plaque presented to Hendrickson at the Veterans Soup Supper Nov. 11 in appreciation of the work she has done to identify and record locations of military personnel graves in the Broken Bow Township Cemetery.
Hendrickson created the directory in 1999 and updates it every year with information from the Veterans Service Office. The directory and maps are used by those who decorate military graves for Memorial Day.