Centre County cemetery to honor fallen veterans on Memorial Day

Volunteers for the Union Cemetery in Bellefonte are preparing to honor fallen veterans this Memorial Day.

They spent part of their Thursday at the Brockerhoff House making approximately 30 wreaths that will be placed on veterans’ gravestones ahead of Memorial Day.

Those veterans died in the line of duty.

They plan on laying the wreaths this coming Tuesday morning.

Volunteers said it's very important for all of us to honor and remember those who fought for our freedom.

Union Cemetery volunteer Connie Cole said, "You can't let their memory completely fade; these are people that died in the line of duty, died in service. That's Memorial Day, that's what it's for, to remember that somebody died so you could have the freedom that you have today."

In addition to wreath laying planned for Bellefonte, volunteers are working to get wreaths laid at the Milesburg Cemetery as well.

They are working with the American Legion in town on locating gravesites of those veterans there.

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