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News and Notes

Join us for our next meeting!

Meeting place:  Swartz Creek City Hall Council Chambers
Time of meetings:  Trustees:  5:30pm  Members:  7pm
Meeting date:  Second Wednesday of each month

August Meeting:  No meeting scheduled.

September Meeting:  Tour of Purdy home, (former SC Depot) & Duffield United Methodist Church

 October Meeting:  Len Thomas; Tracking Lucy Blanchard, a Civil War Nurse.

November Meeting:  Shirley Florine; Symbols of cemetery headstones and their meaning.

Look at the latest addition to the Veteran's Memorial

Air Force Statue

Navy Statue

Army Statue

Here is the list of Swartz Creek soldiers who were killed or died during WWII.

How did they die?  Now we all know!

Francis Blanchard was killed in action.

Ernest Christensen was killed in action.

Kenneth Elliott was killed in action.

J. D. Plummer Jr. was lost in the Pacific Ocean while on his  way home following the Japanese surrender.  His body was never found.

John W. Clarke died in a plane crash while on a training mission over Council Bluff, Iowa on December 14, 1943.

Harold Cook died from combat wounds.

L. B. Kingsbury died from disease.

Donald Lawrence was killed in action.

Carl Eisentrager was killed in action.

Dalton D. Wells died in fighter plane crash in South Pacific.  His body was never found.

Let us continue to honor these brave and honorable men!

Email: Bill Morgan - President

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