Parade, Ceremony to Honor Veterans
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$1.00 THURSDAY THE TECUMSEH MAY 25, 2017 Tecumseh, Michigan Join us! VOL. 164, ISSUE 33 HERALD LENAWEE COUNTY’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER • SINCE 1850 tecumsehherald.com INSIDE: District Court Judge Laura Schaedler suffers injury abroad • Page 5A In the news Parade, ceremony to honor veterans Golf tournament to benefit Relay for Life n Special presentation at Brookside Cemetery to honor two local war heroes The Fourth Annual Golf for Hope fundraiser for the By JACKIE KOCH salute as American Cancer Society will [email protected] well as be held on Saturday, June traditional 10, at Hantz Golf Club. The Tecumseh’s Memorial Day patriotic four-person scramble begins Parade will take place Monday, r i t u a l s with lunch at noon and a May 29 beginning at 10 a.m. at with local shotgun start at 1:45 p.m. city hall, 309 E. Chicago Blvd., officials Entry fee is $280 per four- traveling through downtown on t a k i n g some. Prizes will be awarded Chicago Boulevard and fol- part. for longest drive, putting con- lowed by a special ceremony at “ I f test and more. In addition, Brookside Cemetery, 501 N. we’ve got Gary Naugle players will have a chance to Union St. The patriotic event is a veteran win a new car by scoring a one of the largest Memorial Day that wants to be in the parade, if hole-in-one. All proceeds will parades in Lenawee County and they want to go down to the be donated to the American will feature military and civilian Legion at about nine o’clock Cancer Society’s Relay for aircraft flyovers as well as the they can board a bus,” Naugle Life. To register, contact Plymouth Fife and Drum Corp said. “We’re going to have a Cindy Mullen at 264.8285, and bagpipe players. couple of buses that they can get email cindy.mullen@wack- “We’ve got two of our local on there. They can ride during er.com or go to http://relay veterans that we’re going to the parade and at the service and 4life1.wix.com/wacker. honor,” said Gary Naugle, who then they can ride back to the has been the parade marshal for Legion.” Veterans can also have Maves, Rowe to play in the past 18 years. “We have our someone drop them off at city NAIA World Series military planes plus we have hall at 9 a.m. to prepare for a some civilian planes that are short service to lay a wreath at Tecumseh High School going to be flying over.” the monument there at 9:40 graduates Emily Maves and Naugle said there will be a.m., and would need to make Mckenzie Rowe are featured approximately 75 units in this arrangements to be picked up at players on Davenport year’s parade, which will the cemetery after the final pro- University’s championship include the Lenawee County gram. softball team, which will be Sheriff’s Office Mounted The parade will arrive at the advancing to the NAIA World Division, World War II veterans cemetery by 10:45 a.m. with the Series on Friday, May 26, at and Boy Scout, Cub Scout, Girl service beginning around 11 5 p.m. in Clermont Fla. PHOTO BY MICKEY ALVARADO Scout and Brownie troops, as a.m., and the event is expected Davenport University (47-8), Cemetery superintendent Dan Righter, left, helps position a cannon onto its pedestal at well as children riding decorated to end by noon, Naugle estimat- seed No. 4, will be facing Brookside Cemetery, together with staff workers Rudy Alaniz (center) and Terry Douglass. bicycles. The Plymouth Fife and ed. LSU Alexandria (49-8), the Drum Corp and bagpipe players “The parade is to get people No. 5 seed. The 10-team, Tom Kennedy and Richard out to go to the cemetery where double-elimination event will Burton will participate in the the service is at,” said Naugle. be played out at the Legends Cannons returned to glory parade and will also perform at “That’s the most important part, Way Ballfields. Maves is a the cemetery ceremonies, as will the most meaningful part of the key pitcher for the Panthers By JIM LINCOLN information that had long been their pedestals alongside the singer Alex Spear. The speaker whole service of the day is what while Rowe is a starter in the [email protected] covered up by multiple layers Civil War statue. Each weighed for the cemetery service will be we do at the cemetery.” outfield. of paint. 4,250 lbs, testing the limits of Captain Christopher J. Dennis, For more information on the A major restoration project Cemetery superintendent the cemetery’s backhoe. Naval ROTC instructor at the parade and veteran transporta- of two cannons at Brookside Dan Righter said it wasn’t easy University of Michigan, and tion contact Naugle at Cemetery recently revealed moving the two cannons from SEE CANNONS PAGE 4A attendees will witness a 21-gun 517.673.0993. Total of 357 seniors graduating June 4 With lots of pomp and cir- Exhibit includes work cumstance, Tecumseh, Clinton from K-12 students and Britton Deerfield high schools will all hold com- Art students in -grades K mencement exercises on 12 displayed their work col- Sunday, June 4 at various lectively in a week-long times. Tecumseh’s ceremony exhibit at Tecumseh High will begin at 2:30; Clinton, at School recently. Pictured with 3 p.m.; and Britton Deerfield, her collage is Herrick Park at 2 p.m. Elementary artist Aubrey With approximately 230 Russell. See pictorial of the students graduating, exhibit on page 8A in today’s Tecumseh Public Schools Class of 2017 from THS, Herald. scholars will walk through the CHS and BD featured in this gymnasium doors one last week’s Herald supplement. Inside time as seniors. They will hear Classified 1-2B various speakers, poetry, and intendent and principal. The Crossword 3B music before walking across Lady Red chorale will sing Faith 8A the stage to receive their during the ceremony. No tick- Legals 2-3B diplomas. Students will each ets are necessary to attend. Living 3A receive eight tickets so they Fifty-five seniors from the Look Back 9A can invite family and friends. Britton Deerfield School Obituaries 2A Seventy-two seniors are District are slated to walk Sports 6-7A scheduled to receive diplomas across the stage at Dawson from Clinton Community Auditorium on the Adrian Jerry’s Market PHOTO BY MICKEY ALVARADO Schools during commence- College campus during com- Insert inside A mural installed recently at the end of the soutwest block in downtown Tecumseh depicts the ment ceremonies in the high mencement exercises. today’s historic places and faces of people who played an important part in the development of the school gymnasium. Among Administrators and top sen- Tecumseh city, from its inception and founding to the industrial age to the modern era. See a description the speakers will be the top iors will speak during the cer- Herald! of the mural and its images on page 5A in today’s Herald. students as well as the super- emony. PAGE 2A — THE TECUMSEH HERALD MAY 25, 2017 TECUMSEH & AREA OBITUARIES Imagine was born in Battle Creek, Mich., the Battle Creek Seventh Day British Isles, and the Genesee on June 22, 1922 to Edward F. Baptist Church. While living in Valley area of New York State. and Bess (Stillman) Boehm. She Tecumseh, Polly attended Gloria At Polly’s request, cremation That married Edgar Carl Kirsch, Jr. Dei Lutheran Church. has taken place. A celebration of on March 16, 1946. Polly is survived by her son, Polly’s life will be held on Polly attended Battle Creek David C. Kirsch and daughter- Saturday, May 27, 2017 at By Mary Kay McPartlin schools until graduation from in-law, Vicky R. (Berg) Kirsch, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church at Battle Creek Central High of Tecumseh; granddaughter, 12 p.m. with Pastor Gordon School in 1940. She attended Mary C. (Brian) Bruggenwirth; Peterson officiating. Visitation This is the season to move young girl’s trip was one of Michigan State University for great-granddaughters, Elizabeth will start at 10 a.m. and continue on. High school and college tragedy. two years, becoming a member and Erin Bruggenwirth, all of until the service starts. graduations are about to The truth is we never know of the Delta Zeta sorority in Adrian, and many nieces, Memorial contributions may launch young people (and what the future holds. We can 1942. In 1962, Polly graduated nephews and cousins. be sent to the Battle Creek some not-so-young people) predict that most of our days from Kellogg Community She was preceded in death by Seventh Day Baptist Church, into new lives. It’s exciting. will be uneventful, but reality College’s Practical Nurse train- her husband, parents, her broth- 202 N. Washington, Battle It’s nerve-racking. It’s a happy has a way of stepping in and PAULINE RUTH ing program and became a er, N. Edward Boehm, and sev- Creek, MI 49017, or to Gloria time. It’s a melancholy time. changing our boring lives. “POLLY” KIRSCH Licensed Practical Nurse. She eral nieces, nephews and Dei Lutheran Church. With the world in a state of Our choice is to decide Pauline Ruth “Polly” Kirsch, worked in that profession in a cousins. Envelopes will be available at perpetual chaos, moving for- whether to live life fully or to 94, passed away peacefully with hospital and nursing homes in Polly adored her grandchil- the service.