Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans' Memorial

Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans' Memorial Veterans' Memorial in Adrian, Missouri to honor those who have served in the United States military.

03/01/2026

Our annual fund raiser breakfast for the VFW/Veteran's Memorial is Saturday, March 7th. We'll start serving at 7am and close at 9am. All you can eat $10.00. Any donations are very much appreciated. We will have our US flags for sale, the annual pie/cake raffle, and our two gun raffle is on going.
Frontier Village, Adrian, Mo in the Ladies Kitchen!
Eggs, sausage, pancakes, B&G with coffee, milk or juice.
A good cause, good food, fine fellowship.
We extend a huge thank you to the WMAT MA Ladies Aux for donating the kitchen fee and all the work preparing the meal. They are such patriots for doing all this for the veterans of today and those veterans lost.
Please join us if you will. Thank you.

Today we remember Hugh R. Davis, veteran of WWI (Oct 23, 1895 - May 15, 1993).Davis volunteered to serve his country in ...
10/23/2025

Today we remember Hugh R. Davis, veteran of WWI (Oct 23, 1895 - May 15, 1993).

Davis volunteered to serve his country in August 1917, serving until May 1919. While driving mules as a “muleskinner” in France, he was with Headquarters Detachment, Company B, 12th Machine Gun Battalion, 35th Infantry Division.

A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

Read more about the role of mules during WWI:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/unsung-heroes-first-world-war-missouri-mules.html

Today we remember SSGT Lawrence P. Sage who served in the US Army Air Corps during WWII. A brick has been laid in his h...
10/14/2025

Today we remember SSGT Lawrence P. Sage who served in the US Army Air Corps during WWII. A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

Obituary from Kansas City Star 29 June 2004; Promotion announcement from The Adrian Journal 25 Oct 1945.

Ernest E. Center, 76, of Liberty, MO passed away Friday, August 8, 2014 at Liberty Hospital. He was born October 9, 193...
10/09/2025

Ernest E. Center, 76, of Liberty, MO passed away Friday, August 8, 2014 at Liberty Hospital. He was born October 9, 1937 to Ernest and Jewell (Johnson) Center in Harwood, MO. He served his country in the US Navy. On May 12, 1973 Ernest was united in marriage to Martha Lefevre and she survives at their home. He retired in 2004 as custodian of Lakeview Wood State School in Lee’s Summit. Ernest enjoyed fishing, reading and camping. He was preceded in death by his parents.
In Addition to his wife, Martha, he is survived by his daughter, Cynthia Jarrett and husband Clinton of Lee’s Summit, MO; sister Maxine Center of El Dorado Springs, MO; grandson, Alexander Perry and wife Elisheba of Liberty, MO; granddaughter, Haven Perry.

A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

Today we honor Richard Rosier who served in the US Air Force 1961-69.A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charl...
10/04/2025

Today we honor Richard Rosier who served in the US Air Force 1961-69.

A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

Today we honor Pvt William Jordon Allen (August 10, 1895 - July 23, 1974).A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. ...
08/11/2025

Today we honor Pvt William Jordon Allen (August 10, 1895 - July 23, 1974).
A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

Today we remember LSC Tracy Rugg (July 26, 1924 - April 20, 2013). He served aboard the USS Vulcan during WWII and a br...
07/26/2025

Today we remember LSC Tracy Rugg (July 26, 1924 - April 20, 2013). He served aboard the USS Vulcan during WWII and a brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

The USS Vulcan (AR-5) keel was laid 16 December 1939 at the New York Shipbuilding Corporationin in Camden, New Jersey. Sponsored by Mrs. James Forrestal, wife of the Under Secretary of the Navy, Vulvan was launched on 14 December 1940 and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 14 June 1941.

After a shake down cruise to San Juan, PR, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, USS Vulcan underwent a final fit out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. She was assigned to Argentia, Newfoundland, the western terminus of the convoy routes to and from Europe. As the Summer of 1941 progressed and the war in Europe pulled more US ships into convoy duty, Vulcan was moved to Iceland where she supported a Task Force that included USS Wasp (CV-7), USS Mississippi (BB-41), Wichita (CA-45),and a squadron of four destroyers. Vulcan remained in Iceland through the winter of 1942.

Vulcan arrived in Boston in May 1942, where she underwent repairs. She returned to Argentia from June to November 1942, Vulcan then steamed to Iceland on 18 November, remaining there until April 1943. After repairs in Norfolk during June 1943 , Vulcan departed for the Mediterranean and Oran, then Algiers, Algeria where she spent the next year. In late summer 1944 Vulcan supported the invasion of southern France.

Vulcan returned to Norfolk and overhaul. Exiting the shipyard she steamed to the Pacific, where she operated out of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Nouma and Ulithi. After the war ended Vulcan moved to Okinawa. Starting in September 1945 USS Vulcan supported various ships of the Occupation Force, at Kure, Kobe and Yokosuka Japan.

In March 1946 Vulcan headed for home. touching at Pearl Harbor and transiting the Panama Canal while voyaging to Brooklyn, New York.

Today we remember SP4 Harold Lee Six (July 22, 1934 - September 25, 2020).Six proudly served in the United States Army. ...
07/22/2025

Today we remember SP4 Harold Lee Six (July 22, 1934 - September 25, 2020).

Six proudly served in the United States Army. He was inducted in the spring of 1957 and discharged in early 1959. During his military service, he was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, Fort McLellan, Alabama, and Camp Pieri, Wiesbaden, Germany.

A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

On what would have been his 100th birthday, we commemorate GM2C Ralph W. Rush (July 22, 1925 - October 6, 1995).Ralph Ru...
07/22/2025

On what would have been his 100th birthday, we commemorate GM2C Ralph W. Rush (July 22, 1925 - October 6, 1995).

Ralph Rush, born and raised in Adrian, Missouri, enlisted in the United States Navy in August 1943. By September, he was stationed at Camp Farragut, Idaho, for training. Upon completion of basic training, he transferred to Camp Peterson for gunnersmate school in December. By March 1944, he had been promoted to S1C Rush and was stationed in Puget Sound, Bremerton, Washington. In June 1944, he received a promotion to gunnersmate third class.
In January 1945, Rush was stationed at Treasure Island and subsequently visited San Diego, California, in the following month. He continued his travels to San Pedro, California, in June 1945. By then, he had been stationed in Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, Guam, Saipan, Carolina, and Okinawa. In August 1945, he returned from Manila to San Francisco.
In October 1945, Rush was positioned 200 miles north of Tokyo. The following month, he was stationed in Aomori Rai Won Bay. He was subsequently granted leave and returned home in March 1946, prior to his formal discharge from the Great Lakes Naval Separation Center in April 1946. This remarkable journey exemplifies the extraordinary experiences of a young farm boy from Missouri.

A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial in Adrian, Missouri.

Today we remember Sgt. Wayne C. Davis (July 20, 1912 - November 18, 1998), veteran of WWII from January 1943- December 1...
07/20/2025

Today we remember Sgt. Wayne C. Davis (July 20, 1912 - November 18, 1998), veteran of WWII from January 1943- December 1945.

A brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

07/17/2025

Today we remember PFC George W. Smith (July 17, 1931 - August 19, 2014).

PFC Smith served with the Army during the Korean War and a brick has been laid in his honor at the Lt. Charles Garrison Veterans Memorial.

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433 NE State Route 18
Adrian, MO
64720

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(816) 898-2359

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