Dexter Honors Servicemen With Memorial Roll

Dexter Honors Servicemen With Memorial Roll

Dexter residents and their neighbors gathered at the village square yesterday afternoon to dedicate a two-sided memorial honor roll, planned and established by the Dexter Kiwanis Club, in memory of veterans of this and other wars. The Ann Arbor St. side of the honor roll shown above lists names of Dexterites now in armed service and shows in addition the Liberty Bell motif and the flags of freedom.

Dexter Dedicates New Memorial Honor Roll

DEXTER--Dexter and Dexter area residents area residents paid further honor to their neighbors in the nation's armed service yesterday afternoon when they unveiled and dedicated an honor-roll bearing the names of 160 Dexter men-in-service as well as painted depictions of battle and home front scenes.

The memorial honor roll, made possible by the Dexter Kiwanis Club, is set-up in the village square between Ann Arbor and C Sts. It has two facings.

Painting for the honor roll was done by Royal a. Baker, Portage Lake resident and a former member of the Detroit police department.

The honor roll facing on the Ann Arbor St. side emphasizes the Liberty Bell motif, names of servicemen and the nation's flag. The C St. side depicts battle scenes inspired, Mr. Baker says, by stories from the Guadalcanal area. Worked in with the battle scenes are lines giving recognition to the work of the Red Cross as well as patriotic mottoes concerned with home front activities.

John Hoey, chairman of the project, presented the honor roll to the village during yesterday's dedication and the acceptance address was given by Mayor A. G. Wall. Judge H. Wirt Newkirk delivered the principal address of the afternoon.