The Bluffton American Legion Post #382  invite Bluffton residents to join in this year's event on Monday.

Parade

A Memorial Day parade will start from the Bluffton town hall. To be in the parade be at the town hall by 9:15 a.m. The parade will start at 9:30 a.m. 

Service at Maple Grove

The speaker for the memorial ceremony is Rev. John F. Stites, moderator of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bluffton. He attended several graduate programs and graduated from the U.S. Army Chaplain School.

Drafted into the US Army in August 1964, he served with the 1st Logistical Command at An Khe, Vietnam, from August 1965 to July 1966. Commissioned a 1st Lt. in 1993, he served as a US Army Chaplain for a brief period.

Stites taught, coached football and wrestling and served as a secondary school administrator for 35 years.

Chicken barbecue follows ceremony

Following the ceremony the American Legion Post #382 will serve Harlan’s barbecue chicken dinners at the Citizens National Bank Parking lot from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.