Celebrating Our Fallen Heroes

MEMORIAL DAY Ridgeview Memorial Park

Ridgeview Memorial Park
2525 Central Expressway North, Allen, Texas
Monday, May 27, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

Master of Ceremonies – JIM NICHOLS, VFW Post 2150, USAF 

Opening Prayer – RON PRICE, Chaplain, VFW Post 2150, US Army, Vietnam 

Pledge of Allegiance – BOY SCOUT TROOP 2150  

Patriotic Music by SMOOTH BREW, BARBERSHOP QUARTET 

Keynote Address – SHERIFF JIM SKINNER USAF -BIO INFO SHOULD BE HERE

Reading of the Names – DAVE HOCH, Post 2150, US Army, Vietnam 

Special recognition will be given to the fourteen young men buried at Ridgeview who died while serving our country: 

PFC KENNETH JACK HILL, 19, US Army, KIA in South Korea 23 December 1950.  

Specialist 5th Class BILLY RAY DENNIS, 34, US Army, died in Korea 3 January 1963. 

Seaman 1st Class TOMMY WAYNE HARRIS, 20, US Navy, died 14 May 1965. 

Corporal DARRELL "GEORGE" MAHAN, 20, USMC, KIA in Vietnam 19 August 1967. 

PFC THOMAS B. HOLDBROOKS, 19, USMC, KIA in Vietnam 28 December 1967. 

Corporal CHARLES W. "BILL" BRYAN, 20, USMC, KIA in Vietnam 20 January 1968. 

Sgt. GARY LEE ELDRIDGE, 23, McKinney, US Army, Vietnam veteran, died 12 February 1968. 

Seaman PAUL GORDON LUNA, 18, US Navy, died 8 Sept 1969. 

Captain RICHARD MICHAEL RYAN, 24, USAF, killed in a helicopter crash 20 September 1969.  

Specialist 4th Class VERNON WAYNE WOODY, 22, US Army, Killed in Vietnam 30 January 1970.  

Specialist 5th Class MARTIN LEROY RODGERS, 18, US Army, KIA in Vietnam 26 July 1970.  

PFC ANTHONY ADAM LANDERS, 19, US Army, died 26 July 2003.  

Corporal TYLER SETH TROVILLION, 23, USMC, KIA in Iraq 15 June 2005. 

Lance/Corporal JACOB D. HAYES, 24, USMC, died of wounds received in Iraq, 17 December 2008.  

Specialist PEREZ, PEDRO ROLANDO, 22, US Army National Guard, died 15 July 2022. 

 

Hosted by  

Turrentine Jackson Morrow
VFW “Lone Star” Post 2150, McKinney
Collin County Freedom Fighters