MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES

Memorial Day services to honor military personnel who gave their lives for their country are planned Monday in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City. The schedule:

CAPE GIRARDEAU

Monday at 10:30 a.m. in Cape Girardeau County North Park, sponsored by the Joint Veterans Council.

Cape Girardeau Municipal Band will perform.

Thomas Giles will serve as master of ceremonies. Speakers will be from each of the organizations that make up the Joint Veterans Council: American Legion Post 63, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838, Area Vietnam Veterans and Support Group, Disabled American Veterans, and Pearl Harbor Survivors.

VFW Post 3838 will provide the color guard. Julia Cowsert will sing.

A firing squad of the Missouri National Guard 1140th Combat Engineer Battalion will salute.

The Avenue of Flags, totaling 485 American flags, will be on display.

JACKSON

Monday at 9:30 a.m. in Old Jackson City Cemetery, sponsored by American Legion Post 158.

Jackson Municipal Band will perform.

The Rev. Don Covington will speak.

Also, Veterans Memorial at Brookside Park will display flags Monday. The memorial has a new, six-passenger golf cart to transport people. The cart can accommodate a wheelchair.

In case of rain, the ceremony will be held at the American Legion Hall on North High Street.

SCOTT CITY

Monday at 11 a.m. in Lightner Cemetery east of Scott City, sponsored by the Kelso Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6407 and its auxiliary.

The Rev. John D. Gearing, a retired Baptist minister living in Cape Girardeau, will speak.

Taps will be sounded. Diane Stephens will sing.

The Scott City VFW Post will place flags on the graves of veterans in area cemeteries.