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ROLL OF HONOR ~ Walloon Lake MI
Melrose Township      World War II


Please do not copy the photos on this site, many of which have been submitted by private individuals...
just come back and visit the site often to view the photos.

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Photo Taken 2007 By Karla Howard Buckmaster
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18 June 2013
The names on the Roll of Honor for Melrose Township WWII are listed below:
Andrew Anderson                    Elbert Anderson
Charlie Bauman                       John Beier                            Joseph Bernadyn                    Lawrence Brill
Lesie Barkley                            Milton Brown                      William Butler                         John Bauman
Edgar Carroll                            Elver Carroll                        Roland Carroll                         Robert Cilke
Victor Cilke                               Elmer Cilke                          Marshall Corey
Dean Dingman                         Louis Drost                          Wesley Dingman
Eugene Ecker                           Leo Ecker                              Ernest Everts                            Ervin Everts
Louis Evans                              Raymond Ecker                   Arthur Edson                            John Jones
Leslie Fineout                          A.C. Fineout                          Nettie Eva Fineout                  Victor Follette
William Fineout                      Walter K. Fineout                Donald Geyer                            Arlo Gokee
Malcom Gokee                        Milton Gokee                        Roy Gokee                                 Wayne Gokee
Donald Goodwin                     John Goodwin                      Keith Goodwin                         Bishop Goodwin
Wilson Gokee                          Joseph Germaine                 Stanley Germaine
Roy Hass                                  Don Herrington                    Phillip Hildner                          Carl Hinkley
Robert Hire                             Millard Hooker                      Harry Howard                          Aner Hall
Floyd Henley                           Calvin Howard                      Ernest Howard
Walter Jensen                         George Jones                         Floyd Johnson                           Rolland Jensen
Howard Kleinhans
Clyde Kent                                Micheal Kondrat                  C. David Kent
Grover Lobdell                        James Lobdell                       Arthur Lloyd                             William Lyon
George Malloy                         Charles McCutcheon           George McDonald                    Sam McDonald
Harold Miller                           Donald Moreau                    Kenneth Moreau                      Allister Murner
Leo Miller                                 Clarence Miller
Avon Newcombe                     Marvel Nickey
Russell Padgett                        Bennie Plews                        Chester Padgett
Frank Romanick                     John Romanick                     Joseph Romanick                    Stanley Romanick
Ernest Ruffe                             Jack Root
Dean Scroggie                          Charles Sherk                        Gerald Smith                            Russell Spalding
Alva Starr                                  Kenneth Starr                        Miles Starr                                Arthur Stevens
Milford Stevens                      Russell Stevens                      Lyman Short                            [Name not clear]
Kenneth Tillapaugh               Ralph Taylor
Elzie Wicker                             George Varnum Whitfield
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ROLL OF HONOR (Close up of some of the names on the memorial)
The bronze plaque on the Veteran's Memorial, honoring Melose Township WWII veterans,
was made by Walloon Lake resident Burt Burns. The stone work was completed by Clare Bates.

Frank Burns' daughter Barb has kept memorabilia from when her father made the plaque of the military memorial. She has submitted the photo below of the leftover letters that were used in the title of the plaque as seen on the top photo of this webpage. Barb remembers having spent many hours playing with the letters when she was little. The letters resurfaced recently when cleaning out Barb's mom's house after Mildred Burns died in the last few years. Barb wishes that her boys, and grandkids could have played with the letters too for tradition's sake.
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Leftover Letters from when the Military Plaque was created by Frank Burns ~ Photo submitted by Frank Burns' daughter Barb in 2016
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14 September 1944 ~ Northern Michigan Review
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18 June 2013



"Military Veterans Buried in Melrose Township Cemetery"
Sponsored by G.T. Lasater - Retired Sheriff Assisted by: Cub Scout Pack 53

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23 August 2016 ~ WWII Memorial with new memorial (at left) for "Military Veterans Buried in Melrose Township Cemetery"
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23 August 2016 ~ Military Veterans Buried in Melrose Township Cemetery
Although Alva Franklin Starr, father of Ken Starr, is listed on this new memorial, Ken who served in WWII and was on Pearl Harbor the day it was bombed, is not listed on this memorial. Ken is buried in the Melrose Township Cemetery (aka Maple Hill Cemetery or Clarion Cemetery) right beside his father Alva. Ken's name was perhaps omitted, because he did not pass away until 2014 (as shown on his obituary), and the plaque may have been prepared before then.
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23 August 2016

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29 April 1938 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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10 June 1948 ~ Northern Michigan Review

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