A total of 318 names were read during a Memorial Day service at the Owensboro Sportscenter on Monday, honoring veterans who have died over the last year and had some tie to Owensboro-Daviess County. 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 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 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.
Pam Smith-Wright, outgoing president of the Owensboro-Daviess County Veterans Organization, led Monday’s ceremony. Owensboro Community Band played music, the VFW Posts 696 Color Guard presented the flags, Tara Estes sang the National Anthem, and Chaplain Anthony Cobb provided the opening and closing prayers.
The full list of names read, as provided by Castlen, is below:
- James Brandle
- James Edward Bolton
- Richard Oswald Chinn
- Troy Pfister (Pronounced Fister)
- Kenneth Lee Carrico
- Joseph Henry Brookman
- Charles “Dee” Payne
- Clyde Eldridge Williams, Jr.
- Joseph Victor “Vic” Carrico
- Leslie Calvin Kellems, Jr.
- Joseph Wendell Yeckering
- Thurman Kenneth “Kenny” Jackson
- Daniel Anthony Frantz, Sr.
- Larry W. Piper
- James Edward “Jim” Haight
- Joseph Leonard Howard
- William “Billy” Thomas Morphew
- Ray F. Frashure
- Joe Bob Trantham
- David Wayne Shaffer
- Kenneth Craig “Ken” McDanell
- Edward Eugene “Gene” Statts, Sr.
- David “Smokey” Millay
- Douglas Webster
- Joseph Kenneth Jones
- Conard G. Barnes
- Terry Lee Pollock
- Joseph E. “Bill” Calhoun
- Everett J. Massie
- James J. “Jim” Stevens
- Carl Ray Boyd
- James R. “Pop” Christian
- Larry Dale Fulkerson
- Forest “Tot” Reynolds
- Todd C. Sanders
- Joseph “Joe” Haynes McCarty, Jr.
- Lee Roy Shouse
- Donald Edward Casey, Jr.
- Jerry Walton Arrendell, Sr.
- Kenneth Roberts
- Richard Paul Collinsworth
- Albert Michael “Mike” Thompson, Sr.
- William “Bill” Eugene Rhinerson, Jr.
- Alfred Wade, Jr.
- Clarence “Buddy” Bivins
- William Arthur “Bill” Howard
- Harold Clark
- John David Alexander
- Samuel E. “Bodee” Douglas
- Donald E. Bland
- James Stinogel
- Larry E. Clark
- Charles L. “Chuck” Gray
- Lewis “Bud” Rouse
- Frances P. Wickham
- Jimmie Armour, Sr.
- Stephen Lynn Staves
- Cecil Darwin Palmiter
- Lonnie Edward Melton
- Roger Laymon Gray
- Wilton “Bill” Dahlquist
- Samuel Joseph Alcorn
- Larry Lee “Buck” Davenport
- Ronnie Franklin Pyle
- Rondal H. Brey
- George Thomas Jones
- Victor Emanuel “Vic” Anderson
- Ralph Milburn Wetzel
- David Owen Anderson
- Vernon Cunningham
- James Ellis Keown, Jr.
- Kenneth Thurman
- Charles “Charlie” Winstead
- Dwight Lee Bowman, Sr.
- Ralph Ramirez
- James “Michael” Green
- Lawrence “Texas Tom” W. Merriweather
- Donald Eugene Hudson
- Carrol Page
- Kenneth Dale Smith
- Paul Thomas Tindall
- William A. “Bill” Payne
- Stephen Boyd Burden
- William Roach, Jr.
- Donald Franklin Gish
- Gilbert Lee Oliver
- William “Bill” Byron Jones
- James Mark Owen
- Jackie Donald Brown
- Randall Lee LaMar
- Arthur Joe Ambs, Sr.
- Gilbert Allen Simmons
- William A. “Tony” Cart
- Paul Robert Williams
- James Larry Blacklock
- Ralph Loyd
- Larry B. Scott
- Ross Eden Jewell
- Bobby G. Maglinger
- Richard “Rick” Allen Sears
- Anthony “Tony” Lee Barkhaus
- Charles C. Brown
- John Henry Schartung II
- Joseph E. Coomes, Jr.
- William “Earl” Davis
- George Barr Crowe
- James “Jim” Rea, Jr.
- William H. “Bill” McDaniel
- Jack Ray Krauchi
- James K. “Jim” Mattingly
- Russell David Reardon
- John Dennis Haynes, Jr.
- Brian Keith Cottrell
- Robert Truman Henry
- William E. “Bill” Brownd
- Dean Bennett
- Hugh Franklin Gaynor
- George Edward Good
- Basil Ray Jackson
- Tom Robertson
- Rodney Neil Duggins, Sr.
- Francis “Frankie” Marion Clark
- Daniel C. Gillians III
- Gerald L. “Jerry” Hamilton
- Gerald Douglas Oliver
- Vernon Richard Brown
- Janet Faye Jones
- John T. “Jack” Cecil
- Eugene “Gene” William Schell
- John Dennis Haynes, Sr.
- Raymond Louis Midkiff
- Bernard Lee Marks
- Jimmie Lee Davis II
- Victor C. Hudson
- Felix Paul “Doodle Bug” Craig
- Eric Wayne Conley
- Joseph T. Sandefur
- Joseph “Donald” Howard, Sr.
- James “Jim” Shrewsberry
- Franklin Joseph Albert
- Michael William Massingill
- William R. Ryan
- Paul Edward Kinison
- Paul U. Payne
- Harry Edward Baumgarten, Jr.
- Doug Masterson
- William Dean Hedges
- Kenneth Wesley “Kenny” Reeder
- Daniel “Dan” Pagan
- Melvin I. Connor
- Billy Ray Dennis
- Johnnie M. Brown
- William R. Wilkins
- Gary Wynn Cowan
- Thomas H. Lindsey, Jr.
- James Bailey Green
- William Joseph “Bill” Potts
- Terry “T.C.” Coffman
- Freddie Dohoney
- Ronald L. Peyton
- Hollis G. Hancock, Sr.
- Dr. Henry R. “Hank” Pardon
- Martin Earl Howard
- Jesse Lewis Puckett
- Jerry Harris
- Leslie Raymond Peek
- George Emil Hardesty
- John Robert “Bob” Risch, Jr.
- Thomas Robert “Ron” Turner
- James Luther Cummins
- Frances Forsythe, Jr.
- John Shepherd, Jr.
- Roger Herman Ingram
- William “Bill” W. King
- Donald Elwood Catron
- Barry Lloyd Duncan
- Robert “Bob” G. Williams
- James “Jim” Harold Nation
- Robert Scott Blanford
- Steve L. Hamilton
- F. Wayne “Kooter” Shouse
- Merle Lawson “Bigger” Sackett
- Jerome Bernard Buschkoetter
- Michael Ray Rice
- Paul Stuart Gholson
- Lonnie Brooks, Jr.
- John Marvin Sevy
- James Randall Coomes
- Francisco “Frank” Amaya
- Charles D. Proctor
- Richard Dwayne Casey
- Edgar “Eddie” D. Wright, Jr.
- Richard “Dick” Lorenze Best
- Gary Wayne Brown
- Thomas “Tommy” Kendrick Fulkerson
- Harmon Calhoun “Cal” Darnell, Jr.
- William E. “Earl” Hamilton
- Warren Hurst
- Larry Dale Burton
- James “Jim” Earl Shelby
- Samuel Terrell Davis
- Marvin Louis Wells
- William “Butch” Knight
- Delbert Junior Hatchett
- Larry Allen Sutherland
- Richard “Dick” Moon
- Donald Ray Colburn
- Norman V. Swift
- Timmy Wilhite, Sr.
- Terry Howell Ruby
- Glenn Edward Tooley
- Hal L. Renshaw
- Joseph Anthony Payne
- George Malcolm Jackson
- Sherrell Joseph Calhoun
- Calvin Ray Robinson
- Frederick Matthew Coomes, Jr.
- Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Adams
- Joseph Carl “Flash” Payne
- Tommy Dean Hunt
- William Brian St. John
- Donald Ray Carter
- Robert Lee “Bobby” Smith, Jr.
- Wallace B. Hamilton
- Terry “Beatle” Eugene Wahl
- Durward James “D.J.” Clark
- Vincent “Vince” Allen Millay
- Scottie “Bartman” McFadden
- Kenneth “Wayne” Henry
- Charles Robert “Bob” Clayton
- Robert Eugene “Bob” Rumage
- Donald E. “Donnie” Head, Sr.
- Frederick “Frank” Kessenger
- Walter E. Knott
- Daniel Brown
- Charles “Charlie” Noel O’Bryan
- Barry E. Wahler
- Robert W. “Bob” White
- Wilbur Lee Wahl
- John A. Bowles
- James “Perry” Alvey
- Dennis A. Uthe
- Tommy C. Moseley
- Michael “Mike” Amos Nall
- Jake Valdez
- James “Dewey” Grace
- Bruce Edwin Elliott
- Anthony D. Hale
- Donald Gene Calloway
- Jerome Blair
- Eugene “Geno” Welch
- Charles Thomas Logsdon
- Larry Aldridge
- Cecil Ray Pogue
- Walter Lee Stinnett, Sr.
- John Daniel Estes
- Joseph Pete Scott
- James “Jim” Trotter
- Frank Golfinos
- Timothy Noel Jordan
- Donald Lee Allender
- Phillip Gale Midkiff
- John Attey
- Joseph F. Wright
- David Wallace Copeland
- George Lewis Wiles, Jr.
- Ralph Gilbert Montanez
- Stephen Edward Bowlds
- Robert Tufts Tiller
- Joe Carley Walters
- Homer T. Smith, Jr.
- James Franklin Johnson
- Robert Paul White
- Joshua Ralph
- Donny Lott, Jr.
- Sterling Dutton, Jr.
- Thomas Spurlock
- Ronnie Roark
- David Stone
- Michael Taucher
- Michael Rawlings
- Donald Champion
- Paul Worrell
- Sherman Bennett
- Elmer Alexander
- Joe Huddleston
- Milton Garrigus
- William Tapp
- Robert Kopp
- Alan Rogers
- Frank Jamison
- Marvin Hall
- Vernon Miller
- Darrell Daniels
- Robert Boone
- Pascal McIntyre
- Roger Cox
- David Young
- Larry Anderson
- James Ruby
- James Pannett
- Keith Hayden Blandford
- Tracy Joe Bratcher
- Randal Lee Sledge
- Bobby Gene Burgess
- Ronnie Allen Walker
- James Patrick Ireland
- Billy Joe Smith
- Larry Wayne Johnson
- Bruce Lake Ball
- Orrin Thomas Johnson
- Kenneth Larry Lanham
- Dallas Phillip Hill
- Donald Rex Prior
- Walter Thomas Denson
- William Douglas Robinson
- William Brice Layson
- Charles Thomas Ross
