Barbara’s uncle also serves in the Navy and survives the Korean War two of her cousins survive the Vietnam War. Navy where he was stationed in Okinawa and thankfully survived to come home. She is awestruck when she sees this poppy fabric and knew it needed to be made into a quilt.
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Barbara always loved to create things with fabric so learning how to quilt is a natural extension of her desire to create beautiful things. She first learned to sew from her grandmother when she was young and applied her skills to making clothes. Barbara started quilting in the early 1980s. The poppy flower is also special to Barbara Allen of South Venice, Florida who made a contemporary poppy wall hanging.
Mitch vividly remembers standing between the doors in the air conditioning at the new Lincoln Bank branch, New Haven in the mid-’60s with his sister Lisa not selling, but offering the poppies to customers for a donation to the Auxiliary to support disabled and injured veterans. Navy veteran of WW II and his mother Erna was a lifelong active member of the auxiliary. Mitch grew up in New Haven two blocks from American Legion Post 330. The cheers and clapping from people huddled on their porches was most appreciated by those of us who marched it.įourth District Councilman Mitch Harper who represents the Waynedale area will walk the parade wearing an American Legion poppy. Last year’s torrential downpour may have shortened the parade and service but not their spirit.
Now forty-four years later thousands of people still line the streets to show their gratitude to the men and women who served their country and come to the Prairie Grove Cemetery to hear the roll call of the veterans who passed away since the previous Memorial Day and to hear the 21 gun salute and taps echo across the cemetery. When I was in junior high my older sister Karen played her flute in the parade as a member of the Elmhurst Marching Band. I love a parade and there is no finer one than the Waynedale Memorial Day parade.
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