A total of 311 names of veterans who have died over the last year and had some tie to Owensboro-Daviess County were read during a Memorial Day service at the Owensboro Sportscenter on Monday. White roses were also laid on the monument to honor the veterans.
The full list of names can be found below.
The ceremony is an annual tradition to honor veterans who have passed away since the previous year’s local memorial service.
Don White compiled the list for several years, then Terry Stinson took over for a short time. Daviess County Judge/Executive Charlie Castlen took over for the 2014 memorial and has done it ever since.
Castlen said throughout the year, he reads obituaries in the Owensboro Times and Messenger-Inquirer and makes a record of anyone listed as a veteran. Castlen said the list includes anyone with ties to Owensboro-Daviess County — from growing up here, to attending college or working here, to dying in the local hospital or being buried in a local cemetery.
In addition to compiling the list, Castlen also reads half of the names during the memorial service. Marine Chuck Coffman read the other half this year.
Laura Morris — Owensboro-Daviess County Veterans Organization chairperson, American Legion Auxiliary president, and American Legion manager — led Monday’s ceremony. The Owensboro Community Band played music, the VFW Post 696 Color Guard presented the flags, 1st Staff Sgt. Gary Mattingly and CSM Paul Mattingly sang the National Anthem, and Chaplain Anthony Cobb provided the opening and closing prayers.
The full list of veterans’ names that was read, as provided by Castlen, is below:
- Phillip M. Hamilton
- Robert “Bobby” Brown Quisenberry
- James Edward Dennison
- Richard “Dick” Anthony Elder
- Carl Thomas Fulkerson
- William James Haliburton
- James “Bruce” Condor
- James Beach Little
- Joseph Daniel “Danny” Lyon
- Thomas Alex Conrad, Jr.
- Raymond Strand Kramer
- William “Bill” Arvell Coy
- Joseph Burl Eskridge
- Gary Marsch
- Wolfgang Johann Hausner
- Charles R. Chappell
- James “Jim” L. Stringer
- William Russell “Rusty” Crask
- Donald Joseph Johnson
- Charles Robert “Bob” Bivins
- Dennis Wayne Morris
- Marvin C. Connor
- Robert “Bob” Allen Fulton
- Gordon William Cobb
- Gary Don Devine
- Lura B. McElhearn
- Jimmie Rickard
- Robert “Joe” Booker
- Steven Magill
- Frank C. Miller, Jr.
- Alan G. Crundwell
- Fred John Zinobile
- Avery W. McDonald, Jr.
- Carl Dean Boyd
- Joseph Carl Aull
- Charles Herbert Young, Sr.
- Larry Towery
- David Edward Hocker
- Ronald L. Royal
- Francis Donald “D.B.” Blanford
- Wendell “J.R.” O Ratliff, Jr.
- Jack M. Bowlds
- James Anthony Hester
- Richard Lloyd Holloway
- Kenneth O’Neal “K.O.” McKenzie
- Anthony Jerome Cecil
- Michael Dale Brown
- Tarrell Beau Goodwin
- Van Lee Ashton
- Donald P. Drake
- John W. “J.W.” Davis
- Lonnie Edward Little
- Theodore William Thompson
- Gary Wayne Foster
- Timothy A. Coons
- Fredrick Hubbard
- Jimmie “Jim” Ray Morris
- Duane Allen Nicholson
- Donald S. “Poppy” Leibfried
- Larry W. Hagan
- Donald “Don” Paige Nelson
- Tony Ray Hall
- Gilbert Franklin “Frank” Lee, Jr.
- James Daniel “Danny” Haynes, Jr.
- Chester Owen Lear
- Robert “Reb” Earl Gaddis
- Ronald Jenkins
- John A. “Jack” Thayer
- Richard Franklin Bailey
- Edward E. Winstead
- Joe Ball
- William Franklin Brooks
- Jerry L. Bradley
- Richard Whitmer, Jr.
- Joel James Peveler
- Clifford “Cliff” Delbert Gross, Jr.
- John Philip Hornsby
- James Aubrey Miller
- Richard “Rick” Anderson
- Gary Lee Fratus
- Brian “Catfish” Lee Myers, Sr.
- David Mack Hocker
- Robert “Bob” Martin Warren
- Jerry Martin Ashley
- Yoshio Nishimori
- George L. Weldon, Jr.
- James Charles Warnock
- Donald Edward Howard
- Michael Dean Overton
- Kenneth Dean “Hawk” Richardson
- Mallory Wayne Logsdon
- Paul E. Case
- Michael John Frazier
- Randall Houston Goatee
- Coleman Cooper, Sr.
- Aaron “Boo” Carbon
- Jimmy Julius Nicholson
- David Wayne Marksberry
- Bobby Thomas Christie
- Richard “Rich” Dushane Morrow
- Alvin Earl Poole
- Hassel Turner Tutt
- John Kutsor
- Emil Gustave Ahnell
- Thomas “Tom” Mitchell Foster
- Herchel Lee Brown
- Lawrence “Sarge” McCubbins
- Alex Darrell Montgomery
- Marion Nicholas “Nick” Woodard
- Hugh Ike Eaton
- David Earl Webster
- Donald E. Heifner
- Henry Eugene “Gene” Lott
- Jordan Frank Harbin
- Windell “Chip” Gossett
- William Larry Clouse
- James Robert Pullin
- Raymond E. Shively
- Bernard Coy Payne
- Otis James Miller, Jr.
- Alwin John Ronald Meincken
- Dennis Earl DeHart
- James S. Adams
- Farron Dale Hill
- Tommy G. Howard
- Jerry Ben King
- Roger “Pat” Baker
- Wendell Allen Crowe
- George Levy Lanham III
- William P. Hayden, Jr.
- Joseph Charles “JC” Higdon
- Charles Philip Coombs
- Robert “Gumby” Earl Anderson, Jr.
- Martin Wayne “Sonny” Cravens
- Darrell Gene Hood
- James “Jim” Garland Alvey
- Donald Joseph Gedling, Sr.
- Floyd Lee Parks
- Allen Lee Mason
- Lawrence “Larry” Edward Collins
- Daniel K. Shumaker
- Gary Wayne Cox
- Maitland B. “Sonny” Rice, Jr.
- Donald Nall
- James Wayne Kimbrell
- Donald Anthony Lee
- William Thomas “Tommy” Payne
- Patrick A. “Pat” Lewis
- Roy Kenneth Yoquelet, Jr.
- Sherrie Kay Erwin
- Raymond J. Boutin, Sr.
- Terry D. Bobo, Sr.
- James Ellis Riddle
- William “Bill” Crabtree
- Marvin E. Hayden
- Kenneth “Ken” E. Hamilton, Sr.
- Michael Chalmers MacDonald
- Roy Douglas “Doug” Clark, Jr.
- Harvey Thorpe Marksberry, Jr.
- Timothy “Doc” Arnold
- Ray Buckner
- Brenda Kay “Pendle” Blair
- James Thomas Terry
- William L. Quinn, Jr.
- Moses Johnson
- Joseph S. Bowlds
- J.R. Richeson
- Kenneth George Hunt, Jr.
- William “Bill” Howell
- E.J. “Jack” Ralph
- Earl Anthony Lanham
- Claude Melton
- Danny Ray Stringer
- William “Bill” Joseph Elder
- James Henry Wayne
- William E. “Sluggo, Mr. Bill” Mauzy
- Jim Gross
- Delbert Gray
- Tamara “Tammi” Chisolm
- John A. Medley, Jr.
- John “Johnnie” Aloysius Booker
- Vincent Craig Benoit
- Joseph Anthony “Tony” McPherson
- William Alexander Sanders
- Allen Gene Carraway
- Craig Christopher Crawford
- James Douglas “Doug” Howard
- Emmett Franklin Daugherty
- Jesse Michael Newcomb
- Ollie “Butch” Gene Wing
- Mark Robert Werner
- Gary Dale Daugherty
- Edward Lyndall Barnes
- James Lawrence Szetela
- James “Wimpy” Leonard Wimsatt
- Drexel Lee Dorris
- Robert “Robbie” Armon Holder
- Marvin Albert Goetz
- Joseph “Joe” Robert Mattingly
- William Galen Acton, Jr.
- Waymon Anthony “Tony” Horn
- Willie “Carl” Richards
- H. Joseph O’Bryan
- Eddie Miller
- James “Jim” Francis Kaelin
- Henry Francis “Frank” Green
- Buddy R. Brown, Sr.
- Kenneth “Papa” “Gene” Conder
- Harrie Ray Buswell
- Robert W. Slack
- Greggory David Kaelin
- James “Manuel” Bennett
- Paul Hubert Crowe
- Charles Robert Thomas
- Howard W. McClure
- Paul Glenn Taylor
- Eddie Dale Calloway
- William Lloyd “Buddy” Kemp, Jr.
- Galen Lee Westerfield
- Hugh Wallace Sweatt, Jr.
- Jerry D. Likens
- Dwight “Red” E. Wathen
- Leonard J. “Corky” Norcia
- Johnny Wayne Wahl
- Elton Wayne Rouse
- Judge Robert E. Hawley
- Courtland “Joe” Colburn
- Garrett Rodman “Rod” Johnson
- Roger Dean Evans
- Hugh Bernard Ward, Jr.
- William Edward “Eddie” White
- Donald “Donnie” Clyde McDaniel
- William C. “Bill” Cook
- Dave C. Enders
- Larry Ralph White
- Erie Lee Anderson
- Leonard “Mike” Marlowe
- Glendle “Glen” Harlen Galloway
- Ronald B. Epple
- Jacob “Jake” Louis Horn
- Edward “Eddie” Lynn Webster
- Jeffery “J.D.” Davis
- Francis Terrell Chase
- William Dempsey Farmer
- Howard James Schleiden
- Kevin Allen Pears
- Larry Mike Wells
- Richard Sherk
- Frank Golfinos
- George McCulloch
- Bobby Earl McIntyre
- Daniel Kirkendoll
- William “Bill” Ray Lewis
- Mervil Phelps
- Michael Thomas Mattingly
- David Allen Winkler
- Robert Leon Haynes
- Joseph Anthony “Tony” Rhodes
- Michael Dale Harmon
- Guy Richard Bennett
- Carl Albert Craelius
- Larry Eugene Burris
- James “Jim” Mitchell Sallee
- Dennis Earl Thurman
- Barbara L. Burns
- James D. Capps
- Willard H. Greenwell
- Daven Carl Kelly, Sr.
- Robert Earl Northern, Sr.
- Jack Oakley King
- Ronald Gene Sweat, Sr.
- Rickey Dean Goatee
- Larry Glynn Neal, Sr.
- Jackie Dean Mefford
- Carl Rex Overton
- Robert Vic Bowers, Jr.
- Ronald Douglas Shepherd
- Sammy Leroy Bolen
- Douglas Edward Walls
- James Roy Roberts
- Arnold “Arnie” Martin Weiner
- Stanley Lee Hardesty
- Margaret Hayden Blincoe
- William Ovid Burns
- Jerome Mark Panick
- Johnny Clinton Bridges
- James Ronald Payne
- Eugene James Thompson
- Julia Ann Scharon
- William Lawrence Shultz
- David Wayne Haley
- Daniel W Crowe
- Kathy Biehler
- Clyde Smith
- Joseph Taylor
- James Michael Moseley
- William Woodring, Sr.
- Roger Allen Edwards
- James Allen Kessner
- James Ralph Dunlap
- Paul J. Strobel
- Paul Bennett Clemons, Jr.
- Stanley Jerome Schlachter
- Gerald Roger Nowiski
- Joseph William “Joe Bill” McKay
- Charles E. Richie
- Larry Leamon Eaton, Sr.
- James Ballowe
- Harold N. Tune
- Charles Greene Brumley
- Larry McElroy
Also recognized were the late veterans Bob Musgrave and Dan Lyons, whose names were missed on last year’s list.
