Remembrance Ceremony - 50th Reuion Obituary

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Graduation Year	Class of 1967
Date of Passing	Aug 12, 2017
About	REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY TABLE SET UP White tablecloth (Judy Plotner Willis & Carleen Rittenhouse Woodke) Single place setting, preferably all white (Keven & Jackie Cooper Dodt) Wine glass — inverted (Marsha Patty Bender) Slice of lemon on bread plate (Tim & Ed Minnick) Salt shaker (Wayne Leach) Vase with a single stem yellow rose and red ribbon (Sandy) Candle — Lit (Ron Roller) Empty chair leaned against the table (Greg Lawson) (Steven Baker - Narrator): Gentlemen, please charge your glass and those of the ladies; Preferably with an alcohol-less beverage. As you found your places this evening, you may have noticed the smaller table in its place of honor. The table is to be set to symbolize the 12 members of our class missing from this life. They are unable to be with us tonight and so...we remember them. The Tablecloth is white -- Representing the purity of their young lives taken from this life far too soon…We Remember!... This Table -- set for one, is small — respecting each one of our individual classmates, passed on…We Remember!... The Glass is inverted — for they cannot toast with us this night…We Remember!... A Slice of Lemon on the bread plate reminds us of the bitter fate of their untimely and early departure…We Remember!... There is Salt spilled upon the bread plate the tears of many who have missed them …We Remember!... The Yellow Rose reminds us of the families, loved ones, and good friends who may miss them so dearly…We Remember!... The candle is lit -- Symbolizing the upward reach of their unconquerable spirit …We Remember!... The chair reserves their place, but is empty for they will not be here this evening …We Remember!... All of you who grew up with them...called them friends who depended upon their strength and aid…relied upon them to help make your way …We Remember!... Until the day we all come home …We Remember!... Please stand. With our simple drinks ....We toast our departed classmates. "TO OUR DEPARTED CLASSMATES" CHINESE LANTERN SEND OFF Fine People, if you would please file out the doors to my right we would like to send our good wishes for them to the heavens. COMMENTS day…unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear. Robert Martin DOB 05-31-49 DOD 03-18-68 Killed in action in Vietnam John Ellet DOB DOD 01-17-70 Larry Miller DOB 03-15-49 DOD 11-13-74 Judi Floyd DOB 12-21-49 DOD 09-02-80 Hepatitis Susan Coleman DOB 07-06-49 DOD 08-04-90 Car Accident Shirley Johns DOB 05-09-49 DOD 09-20-93 Lynda Hirt DOB 07-15-49 DOD 12-07-97 Breast Cancer Rick Weaver DOB 01-27-48 DOD 11-20-00 Cancer Nettie Watts DOB 01-06-49 DOD 04-23-07 Ted Blevins DOB 06-13-49 DOD 10-14-12 Joe Kahl DOB 06-19-49 DOD 08-03-16 Surgery Complication Tom Hershberger DOB 9-19-49 DOD 01-13-17