Thanks for last year’s support
On behalf of our veterans buried at Maryland Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery (MDCHVC) and the St. Charles High School (SCHS) Marine Corp Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (MCJROTC), we would like to thank our community, family and friends for your contributions in 2017. A special thanks to Bel Alton Memorial VFW Post 10081; Century21 New Millennium Real Estate, La Plata; DC Ramblers Motorcycle Club Inc., Hughesville; Disabled American Veterans Mar yland Chapter 17, Temple Hills; Disabled American Veterans Maryland Chapter 36, White Plains; the family and friends of Daniel McDonald of Accokeek; Harry White Wilmer Post 82 American Legion, La Plata; Home Starts Here, LLC; Hughesville Garden Club, Hughesville; La Plata Lions International Club, La Plata; Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 8810, Waldorf; Southern Charles County Memorial Post VFW Post 100; and Southern Maryland Mustang Club for your sponsorship and support of our program.
The response to my call for action published in October 2017 by the Mar yland Independent newspaper was overwhelming. Your support helped me exceed my personal fundraising goal of over $12,000 in sponsored wreaths for Mar yland Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery. Dec. 16, 2017, was a record year for Wreaths Across America at Cheltenham, as we received 8,200-plus wreaths to be laid in memor y of our loved ones. Cheltenham is the final resting place for more than 27,000 U.S. service members and their spouses. With your contribution, we covered a third of the cemeter y. The SCHS MCJROTC remembered and honored the following with a sponsored wreath at Cheltenham:
Douglas Duane Alford, Robert George Amos, Marie Amos, William Edwin Anderson, George Bannigan, Willaim Brent Barbour, Nathaniel Bellamy, William H. Berninghausen, Linda Darlene Betts, Margaret Bowman, Nathan J. Bowman, Kenneth Steven Bradburn, Robert Lewis Brown, Clyde M., JR Burns, William Patrick Burns, Richard Caldwell, Lowell E. Carey, Larry Carroll, Thomas Berry, SR Carroll, Clara Estelle Carroll, Donald A. Chandler, William A., SR Chandler, William Robert Cheseldine, Alice Mae Christian, James Douglas Christian, Frank Cicala, Sylvester Frederick Clagett, Edward Clark, William Joseph Clark, Elizabeth Ann Clifton, Franklin, SR Clifton, John Copsey, Vera Copsey, Marion G. Davis, Kenneth Davis, Ken Davis, Jean Hottle Dayton, Charles Richard Delaney, Richard Deleaney, James S. L. Dobson, Albert A. Dorsey, Charles Gordon, SR Dotson, John Donovan Dove, Robert R. Duley, John M. Duncan, William Clark, SR Dunty, James Roland Dyer, John Eberhardt, Alvin Roy Edwards, Donald A. Epperson, Terrence V. Eyler, Douglas Clifford Farmer, Ross Louis Fiasco, Wayne I. Foster, James Heber, JR Garner, James Donald Garner, Earl Downing, JR Gould, Emmett F. G. Gray, Thomas M. Grinder, Carla Ruth Gritzmacher, John Michael, JR Gyorda, Donald F. Hall, George Smith Hampton, John E. Hancock, Joseph Allen Henderson, Robert Hendricks, Sharon Hendricks, Inez Hergett, William Hergett, William A. Hergett, William Washington Hocker, Jackie F. Horrell, Sarah G. Huston, Sara Hutchiison, William F., SR Hutchison, Charles, JR Hyde, Donald Allen Inks, James E. Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, William Karr, James Joseph Kennedy, James Howard Kidwell, Kenneth W. Knotts, Bonnie Lane, Clyde Lane, Richard W. Law, Milton Andrew Lewis, Opal Evelyn Lewis, Clyde Wesley Lick, Francis J. Lightheart, David Bruce Lutz, Louis V. Lyles, Donald Alexander MacDonald, Roy Mahew, Frank Latham, SR McAlwee, Daniel Charles McDonald, David G. McVay, Daniel Anthony Mears, Rebecca Mears, Michael Mears, Robert Meek, Vernon Chester, JR Monday, Earle Mareen Moore, Charles L. Mosley, John L. Muldoon, Samuel Newman, Eugene O’Brien, Catherine O’Brien, James J. O’Brien, Donald Joseph Parise, Nena J. Perry, Carnell Poole, Eva Mary Posey, Rudolph A., SR Posey, Giovanni Pulvirenti, Mary Pulvirenti, Roberto Ramirez, Marion A. Richards, Frances Robertson, Ophus Landon, JR Robertson, Shirley Sands, Jeffrey Thomas Scott, Charles Shanholtzer, Randall W. Shanholtzer, Christopher D. Sheffe, Kenneth H. Sisk, Marjorie Sisk, George Slay, John Smith, Mary E. Smith, Bernard D., SR Spicer, George E. Spooner, David Oliver Sprouse, David, JR Steger, Arnold John Stemper, Bobbie Jo Stemper, Gene Austin Stoneman, Dan Stratcher, John Strong, Sarah Ann Swann, Charles Ebel Swann, Charles Allen, SR Tabor, Emerson Francis Tarburton, William Tayman, Henry H., SR Tetrault, Carl Wilbur Todd, Judith Ann Todd, Alfredo L., SR Vallarta, Alfredo S., JR Vallarta, Frank H. Vevers, Paula J. Vevers, James Eugene Walker, Clifford H. Wallace, Thomas E. Watka, Wayne Edward Waugh, James Edward Wedding, Matthew D. Wehausen, Benjamin R. Wible, Gary Lee, SR Winemiller, Larry Aaron Woodland, Doris Jean Young and James Steven Young.
I would like to encourage and invite each of our sponsors and the public to join us on Saturday, Dec. 15, at Maryland Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, 11301 Crain Highway in Cheltenham, for this year’s Wreaths Across America event. The Remembrance Wreath Ceremony will begin promptly at noon. Arrive early, parking is limited.
On behalf of the St. Charles High School MCJROTC cadets, thank you all for your continued support of our program, Wreaths Across America and Mar yland Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery. If you would like to continue your support and sponsor a 2018 wreath, you may send a check made payable to Wreaths Across America/MD0054P to SCHS MCJROTC WAA, Attn.: c/Capt. Tarburton; 5305 Piney Church Road, Waldorf, Maryland 20637, or please contact our SCHS MCJROTC WAA program coordinator, Lynn Tarburton, at 301-643-5388 to request a sponsorship form.
Capt. Evan T. Tarburton, Waldorf The writer is a member of the St. Charles High School MCJROTC.