(LE MARS)–Flags honoring 21 veterans are new to a display on the grounds of the Plymouth County Courthouse this Memorial Day.
Wasmer Post 241 of the American Legion provided the annual Memorial Day parade and Avenue of Flags program. The flags added today honor
The roster of 21 new flag dedications:
Melvin Ahrendsen
David W. Albert
Edward “Red” Bergin Jr.
Wallace Brabander
Steve D. Brodie
Ronald D. Cronin
Joseph Delashmutt
Donald W. Ellensohn
Francis “Fritz” Grothe
Donald M. Harms
Lorn R. Harrison
Duane A. Herman
Phyllis Freymann Koopman
Norman D. Lang
Nick Manning
John A. Mayrose
Doyle D. Nielsen
Wendell A. Rhodes
Albert J. “Pete” Stoos
Donald J. Watson
Ronald R. Williams
(Roster Courtesy Wasmer Post 241 Adjutant Tom Baack)
(STORM LAKE)–A Memorial Day boat outing on Storm Lake has turned to tragedy.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, in a written statement, reports a 10-year-old boy, David P. McFarlin, was killed today.
According to the Sheriff of Buena Vista County, Gary Launderville, McFarlin was in a boat going across the lake shortly before 10 this morning when the vessel apparently struck a dredge pipe in the water. That caused that 175-horpsepower outboard motor to flip backwards into the boat and on top of the boy.
One other boy in the boat suffered some minor cuts as a result of the incident.
The boy’s name was released at 7:30 tonight (Monday). There were a total of six people in the boat. That includes the boat operator, the two injured boys and three other passengers.
