Memorial Day Weekend Part II

Gretna Christian Church 100th Anniversary

Minister:  Dwight Mays

111 Leftwich Street
Gretna, Virginia
Mailing Address: Post Office Box 644 Gretna, Virginia 24557

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The Star-Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key

REMEMBERING OUR SERVICEMEN AND SERVICEWOMEN

Russell E. Dalton
U.S. Navy World War II


Sephron Kathleen (Mays) Despard
U.S.Army WAC World War II


PFC Elbert Lee Dove
U.S. Marines World War II
KIA Iwo Jima 1945


Seaman 1st Class Acie B. Gibson
U.S. Navy World War II


Herbert Anderson Gibson
U.S. Army World War II


Harold Arnold Hardy
U.S. Army World War II


Dalton B. Harris
U.S. Army World War II


CPL Shirley A. Hogan
U.S. Army World War II


A.L. (Dick) Lassiter
Aviation Ordinanceman 3rd Class
U.S. Navy World War II


Major Morton Ralph Mays
U.S. Army Signal Corps
World War II and Korean War


PFC Clarence Matherly
U.S. Army World War II


PFC Harold Matherly
U.S. Army-Medic World War II


Sgt. Oscar Lee Mills
U.S. Army Korean War


PFC Earl Pickral
U.S. Army World War II


Judson Ballard Pickral
U.S. Army  Korean 
2 Bronze Stars Awarded


PFC Randolph Pickral
U.S.Army World War II


PFC Turner Pickral
U.S. Army World War II


Paul Grover Rowland
Coxswain (T) V6 USNR SV
USS LST 1004
Asiatic Pacific Area
U.S. Navy World War II


CPL Junior Curtis Saunders
U.S. Army Korean War


Staff Sgt. Floyd Schlauch
Army Air Corp World War II
POW in Bularia for 32 days
2nd Lieutenant U.S. Army  Korean War

Mark E. Poole  photos
Disciples of Christ Historical Society 

Gretna Christian Church

Atha Bailey

Linda Dalton