Luverne in Rock County, Minnesota — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Rock County Veterans Memorial

Photographed By Ruth VanSteenwyk, June 20, 2018

1. Rock County Veterans Memorial Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

This monument has been erected for the citizens of Rock County in proud and grateful memory of her soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen who laid down their lives in all quarters of the earth that other people might be freed from oppression.

Let us here highly resolve that the honored dead shall not have died in vain.

In proud remembrance and in humble tribute to the sacrifices of the Rock County POWs

Arlow Wahlert…………..….Howard R. Iveland
Dale Smith…..……………………….Lloyd Hanson
George Pederson……………..Darwin G. Nelson
Edward McCardell………………….Arvin Dorman
George Lund………………….Raymond Ormseth
Curtis Benson…………………………Merle Larson
Frank Lain……………………………….Carl Bendrich
Walter Klutman……………….Leonard O. Larsen

The names recorded here are those Rock County soldiers Whose earthy resting place is only known to God

Marvin Delapp
Henry Roos
Dennis L. Toms
Howard Clausen
Philip Armstrong

Erected 2007 by Warren G. Herreid II and Jeannie M. Rivet through the K.A.H.R. Foundation

Rock County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Ruth VanSteenwyk, June 20, 2018

2. Rock County Veterans Memorial

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Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II.

Location. 43° 39.39′ N, 96° 12.43′ W. Marker is in Luverne, Minnesota, in Rock County. Memorial is on Luverne St. Memorial is located on the grounds of the Rock County Courthouse. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 214 E Luverne St, Luverne MN 56156, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Rock County Veterans Memorial in front of the historic county courthouse image. Click for full size.

Photographed By McGhiever, October 14, 2012

3. Rock County Veterans Memorial in front of the historic county courthouse

Photographed By Ruth VanSteenwyk, June 20, 2018

4. Rock County Veterans Memorial

Credits. This page was last revised on February 13, 2019. It was originally submitted on June 21, 2018, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. This page has been viewed 205 times since then and 15 times this year. Last updated on February 7, 2019, by McGhiever of St Paul, Minnesota. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 21, 2018, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. 3. submitted on February 7, 2019, by McGhiever of St Paul, Minnesota. 4. submitted on June 21, 2018, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.