White Cloud in Newaygo County, Michigan — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

White Cloud & Community Honor Roll

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— Veterans Memorial Park —

White Cloud & Community Honor Roll image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 13, 2024

1. White Cloud & Community Honor Roll

Inscription. Geo. Bain • James Billingsley • John Bitson • Robert Bitson • Gilbert Bonner • Wm. Bonner • Gail Branch • Louis Branch • Daniel Bridges • Dermot Cavender • Donald Cruzan • Marion Cruzan • Henry Cunningham • Alfred Doering • Harold Doud • James Elliot • Kenneth Evans • Mike Felos • Wilbur Fetterley • Byron Fowler • Edward Frantz • Chas. Gorham • Harold Goyings • Clare Gustafson • James Hall • Stanley Hawes • Leonard Hochstettler • Ellis Johanson • Robert Johnson • Robert W. Johnson • Alex Kalvaitis • Gottlieb Kerstein • John Kerstein • Gerald Lape • Marvin Martin • Chas. Morford • Robert Mudget • Orville Nyquist • Chas. Palonis

Edward Palonis • Odelian Parent • Louis Parker • Fred Perry • Michael Piazza • Cecile Ringler • Clarence Ringler • James Russell • Raymond Sampson • Stanley Scheibach • Leroy Stuthard • Fred Sutherland • Frank Sutter • Clyde Sutton Jr. • Clare Thebo • Devere Thebo • Thomas Trainor • Joe Troyanowski • Andrew Troyanowski • John Troyanowski • Stanley Troyanowski • Henry Van-Oss Jr. • Albert Warner • James Atwater • John Anderson • Robert Anderson • Robert Auw • Arnold Balluff • Donald Basford • Richard Chapin • Harry Cook • Leonard Dunham • Wm. Fox • Jimmie Ferguson • Edw. Fetterley • Everett Flanders • George Jones • Francis Kaiser • Bruno Kalvaitis

John Kartes • John Lee • David Leenhouts Jr. • Ferrand Lemire

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• Donald Innes • Dale Manchip • Harvey Mast • Joe Nelson • Arthur Perry • David Rauch • George Ringler • John Shepherd • Raymond Smith • Vernon Sorden • Willis Stone • Stanley Streeter • Chester Stanislawski • Harry Thornbury • Milan Van-Oss • Paul Van-Assen • Forrest Warner • Jay D. Warner • John Walker • Albert Webster • Arthur Wenstrom • Carl Wenstrom • James Williams • Floyd Wismar • Louis Wotjkowiak • Billie Allen • Ray Allen • Leonard Allers • George Arnold • Steven Bartylla • Carlton Beckman • Ralph Bidelman • Perry Bird • Wm. P. Bird • Forrest Branch

Melvin Branch • Chas. Cole • George Cook • Max Crofoot • Alva Dailey • Harold Decker • Harold De-Long • Karl Eldred • Harry Evans • Delmer Fleckenstein • Lewis Flinton • Harold Fowler • Russell Fowler • Carlton Fry • Joe Gaidamavice • George Guthrie • Calvin Hall • Leroy Hall • Orris Hall • Jesse Harris • Harvey Kelley • John Lindquist • Avery Love • Howard Menold • Russell Menold • Kenneth Morford • Vincent Morford • Harold Neville • Leonard Novak • W. R. Peckinpaugh • Clarence Perry • Robert Peterson • Stanley Pohalski • Walter Pohalski • Walter Ringler • Horace Stitt • George Swaney • Paul Towne • Wm Volz

Lester Wagoner • Frank Woveris • Eldon Wolever • Howard Zacharias • Karl Zacharias • Floyd Albright • Lloyd Albright • Florence Auw • Ray Auw • Donald Barkley • Keith Barton • Kenneth

Veterans Memorial Park Sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 13, 2024

2. Veterans Memorial Park Sign

Bigler • George Bradley • Robert Branch • Scott Bridges • Dale Briggs • Cyle Brundage • Andy Burke • Robert Champion • Tom Christenson • Ewing Collins • Fred Cook • John Cook • Wm. Cook • Milton Dake • Herman Dawson • John Dudeck • Dale Evans • John Felos • Andrew Foss • Kenneth Fowler • Louis Fowler • Robert Fry • Florence Fry • Wm. Foster • Joe Gaceck • Ernest Genauix • Lowell Godfrey • Pete Graves

Cecil Green • Robert Harvey • George Haines • Morton Harkins • George Heath • Jack Hepinstall • James Hepinstall • Harold Hickman • Chas Horton • Edwin Horton • Harold Horton • Edward Johnson • Dyle Johnson • Bernard Kartes • Ray Krois • Martin Kuhns • Joe Kazunas • Clyde Lindquist • Bernard Lucas • Pat Lyons • Leon Maltby • Jr. Manchip • Eva Meyer • Irvin Mirkle • Henry Mitrius • Horatio Moore • Francis Morgan • Louis Morgenson • Nathan Mumper • Walter Neff • James Nelson • Wayne Parker • Warren Platt • Paul Runnels • Clayton Scheibach • John Schmucker • Bruce Smith • Neal Smith • Ross Smith

Leonard Stratton • Walter Slegatis • Forrest Sutton • Chas Stuthard • Stanley Surma • Walter Surma • Russell Thumser • Albert Tovey • Robert Tovey • Robert Tschida • Wm Von-Cloedt • Albert White • Archie White • Stanley Winkler • Ronald Branch • Clyde Cook • George Feighner • Edwin McIntyre • Frank Gorham • Clifford Hoppa • George Gibbs Jr • Wayne Gibbs

White Cloud & Community Honor Roll<br>and Veterans Memorial Park Sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 13, 2024

3. White Cloud & Community Honor Roll
and Veterans Memorial Park Sign

The Newaygo County Offices building is in the background.

• Ellis Twing • Lawrence Lovell • Jack Kimmel • Edward Kimmel • Robert Wells • Willard Alger • Don Arnold • Steve Arnold • Alfred Curtis • Paul Dunworth • Roy Leiter • Rollo McConkey • Edward Morse • Stephen Surma • Bure Briggs • Emmet Eldred • Elwood Sherman

Chas. S. Smith • Howard Sanders • August Davis • Kenneth Neskey • James Klinger • Daniel Mitrius • Martin Mitrius • Henry Faltinowski • Chas Staszkie • Tom Spence • Raymond Peterson • George Orth • J. C. Carter • Joshua Clark • Leslie Q. Lutes • Voigt Lutes

Milus Rudolph • Harold Lyons • Dale Smith • Raymond Nesky • Kenneth Foster • Dick Toft • Walter Sowels • Dick Beckwith • Don Mudget • Georgia Cordts • Marie Cordts • Hazel Thompson • Robert Miller • Delbert Trimm • Robert Schroeder • Paul Stark • Robert Williams • Clarence Craigmyle • John Wolever • Wm. Gacek • Milo Fetterley • Wm. Kimmel • Henry Carr • Milles Carr • Russel Higley • Paul Mitrius • RobertCole • Donald Johnson • Frank Carlson Jr. • Louis Grabill • George Rosenberg • Terrance Williams • Robert Hall • Carl R. Hult • George Powell • Robert Babcock • Deyal Moore • Floyd Moore Jr. • Maurice Fetterley • Adelbert Morse • Chances Depung • Max Thornbury • Melvin Volz • Clair McCombs • John Graves • John Leiter • Clyde Lovell • Arthur S. Perrin • Arthur Champion • Verda Hews

Original by Charles Johnson, 1941–1945 &
Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 13, 2024

4. Veteran Memorial Park Flags
The Killed In Action silhouette is visible below the U.S. flag.
Re-created by Byron R. Fowler, 2006.

Veterans Memorial Park. The Veterans Memorial Park is the culmination of efforts made on behalf of several groups. For many years, the White Cloud Community Honor Roll Sign stood alone on this corner. In 2008, members of the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall Committee and the Newaygo County Board of Commissioners wished to create a permanent site for the flags that were flown at the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall when it was displayed in White Cloud. The Board offered the land to display the flags in recognition of our county’s veterans, while veterans, volunteers, and county maintenance staff landscaped and made aesthetic improvements to the area. The result was Veterans Memorial Park, created to “honor all Newaygo County veterans who have served our country in the armed forces.”

The flags flown at the park are the United States Flag (flying highest), the POW/MIA Flag, and the Marine Corp, Navy, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard Flags, representing all branches of our nation’s Armed Forces.

The White Cloud Community Honor Roll Sign, which recognizes and honors veterans from the community who served during World War II, is a replica of a sign that once stood on the courthouse lawn during World War II.

The Board of Commissioners would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their contributions:

Flag Display
🟂 Morley American Legion Post 554
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Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 13, 2024

5. Newaygo County Veterans Memorial Park at the Newaygo County Offices in White Cloud, Michigan
Newaygo VFW Post 4249
🟂 Holton American Legion Riders
🟂 Purple Heart Pow Wow
🟂 Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps
🟂 The J.R. Sherwood Chapter 18 Military Order of Purple Heart
🟂 Bob Baldwin (in memory of Korean War Veterans)
🟂 Dinan Stemen (in memory of Ben Stemen)
Honor Roll Sign
🟂 Barney Fowler
🟂 Mary Bleiler
Killed in Action silhouette
🟂 Gene Reid
Blue Star Memorial By-Way Plaque
🟂 The White Cloud Garden Club
Additional Landscaping
🟂 Boy Scout Nathan Johnson and Troop 1137 of White Cloud

The Board would also like to thank the Newaygo County staff and the veteran volunteers who continue to devote time to the maintenance of the park.

Erected 2006.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.

Location. 43° 33′ N, 85° 46.463′ W. Memorial is in White Cloud, Michigan, in Newaygo County. It is at the intersection of East Wilcox Avenue and Williams Street, on the left when traveling west on East Wilcox Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1103 E Wilcox Ave, White Cloud MI 49349, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in West Michigan.

It is also in the American Midwest.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and

Blue Star Memorial By-Way Plaque image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 13, 2024

6. Blue Star Memorial By-Way Plaque

It reads, “A tribute to the Armed Forces of America, White Cloud Garden Club. National Garden Clubs. Inc.”

the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 4 other markers are within 12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Hardy Hydroelectric Plant / Hydroelectric Power (approx. 8.7 miles away); Croton Hydroelectric Plant / Hydroelectric Power (approx. 9.7 miles away); American Legion Post 381 Veterans Memorial (approx. 9.7 miles away); Woodland Park (approx. 12 miles away).

Credits. This page was last revised on October 5, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 3, 2024, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. This page has been viewed 602 times since then and 57 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on October 3, 2024, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.