MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS

Sunday

A ceremony will be held at Myrtle Hill Cemetery.

2 p.m. — Maj. Gen. Billy Brown will speak.

The event is sponsored by the Gold Star Mothers and American Legion Post 136. Jan and Joe Johnson, parents of fallen local soldier Spec. Justin Johnson, will lay the wreath on the Tomb of the Known Soldier in the cemetery’s Veterans Plaza at the corner of South Broad and Myrtle streets.

Monday

The Rome Exchange Club’s communitywide Memorial Day observance will be held at the Coosa Valley Fairgrounds.

9:30 a.m. — Exhibits and concessions will open.

11 a.m. to noon — Ceremony will be held.

12:15 p.m. — Exhibits and concessions will reopen.

12:30 p.m. — Concert by the Thankful Baptist Church Choir

1:30 p.m. — The Eighth Regiment Band will perform.

2:30 p.m. — The Roman Festival Brass band will perform.

The Grady Mabry American Legion Post No. 506 is inviting the community to its Memorial Day celebration on Monday at 11 a.m. at the 21 Peachtree St. post. Free food and refreshments will be served.

Shannon will host a service Monday in the circle in front of the former mill office on Burlington Road.

Noon — The observance in Shannon is one of the oldest continuously held in Floyd County. It was originally organized by management at the old Brighton Mill to honor employees who died in World War II.

Brown will also be the guest speaker there. As a Boy Scout in 1946, he participated in the dedication ceremony for the marker honoring the mill employees who died in World War II.

Lindale’s American Legion Post 136 will hold a ceremony at 1 p.m. at the Gilbreath Recreation Center, 106 Garden Ave., where Brown will speak again.