Veterans Day activities on Friday, Nov. 11, will begin with the annual 9 a.m. Willis Park ceremony, sponsored by American Legion Post 62, commanded by Hill Yates, and Post 502, commanded by Larry Carroll.

Activities will conclude at noon with the annual Veterans Day luncheon at Bainbridge College’s Charles H. Kirbo Regional Center, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4904, commanded by Benny Hayes.

During the park ceremony, the featured address will be given by Ronald Kirkland, financial advisor and area manager for Woodmen of the World Insurance office in southwest Georgia.

Woodmen of the World presents American flags and patriotic literature to churches, schools and organizations.

The featured luncheon address will be given by Lt. Col. Dave Stewart, director of the award-winning Bainbridge High School Air Force Junior ROTC program.

Carroll and Hayes will lay a wreath on the park monument, honoring the memory of deceased Decatur County veterans of all wars.

Also during the park ceremony, the Bainbridge High School Bearcat Band will play the national anthem and the Junior ROTC color guard will present the colors and raise the American flag.

The band will play a drum roll while the names of Decatur County veterans, who have passed away since last Veterans Day, are read.

Stewart retired from active duty in 2010 after serving 25 years as a U.S. Air Force pilot.

He flew the Air Force’s T-37, T-38, KC-135, C-9, C-172, C-182, PA-28, and P-A-32 aircraft and was an instructor pilot in all, except the T-38.

Veterans who passed within the last year

The names of the 67 armed forces veterans from Decatur County who have passed away since November 2010 are as follows:

Daniel Willis Arnold, Herschel Bailey, Bobby Gene Barfield, Gregory T. Blackmon, John Paul Boutwell, James Hobbie Branson, Alton Eugene Brock, Frank Brown, Ron Burns, Charles G. Bush, Gregory R. Byres, George Clark, J. Cook, John Wilkinson Cook, Leon D. Culverson, Charles David Duke, James Earl Elkins, Amos Frazier, David A. German, Jeff Gray, L.B. Gray, James R. Harrell, Bobby N. Hatcher, Joe L. Heard, Joe H. Hill, Vince L. Hilliard, Crowell Nelson Huggins, Lucious Barton Humphrey, Malcolm Jefferson, Herbert L. Jeffords Jr, Thomas A. Jones, Raymond C. King, H.A. Larry Laird, James R. Lillethun, Arthur Livingston Jr., John Wayne Love, Paul I. Maloy, Thomas Lamer Maynard, Jimmy McConnell, George McCook, Jack McRae, Kenneth Green Middleton, Willie Murphy Sr., George Edward Murray, Kenneth D. Newberry, Leo Nix, James E. Gene Ohlinger, Henry Gordon Olivent, Steven R. Pearson, Danny Lester Priest, Wilford Sam Pritchett, Ray Reed, Henry Sapp, Danny Shepard, James R. Shores, Bruce Edward Stanton, Joe Thomas, James B. Ward Jr., Jean Wells, Thomas Whatley Jr., Curt Williams, Harry W. Williams, Edward Winbush, Agnew Wright, James Harold Yates, Leon Lee O. Maxwell III, Jesse Spooner