Payne in Paulding County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Buckeye Park Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Craig Doda, June 27, 2025

1. Buckeye Park Veterans Memorial Marker

Inscription. Freedom Isn't Free

United States Army • United States Navy • United States Marine Corps • United States Air Force • United States Coast Guard

Harold Thompson WWII POW Cpt. Army Aircore • Zachary R. Wobler Ssg KIA 2/6/2005 Mosul, Iraq • Norm Eschbach US Navy 1942 - 45 AVN Mach 1/C • Russel L Fulk Sgt. E5 USMC Vietnam 1971 - 74 • Donald L. Kipfer US Air Force 1985 - 1995 • Herbert C. Kipfer US Army World War I • John P. Baumle Army 1943 - 1945 • Donald O. Lyons Navy WW2 1943 - 45 • Robert E. Baumle Army 1942 - 1946 • Eric Lyons US Navy 1987 - 91 • Harold E. Baumle Army 1945 - 1946 • Michael A. Baumle Army 1969 - 1971 • Charles Lyons Navy 1968 - 1970 • Larry N. Baumle Navy 1955 - 1957 • Larry O. Lyons Navy Vietnam War • William E. Baumle USCG 1961 - 1964 • Dan McLaughlin US Army Vietnam 1972 - 1975 • Ray Lyons Army Nat. Gaurd Spec4 1971 - 1974 • Timothy R. Baumle Navy 1966 - 1968 • J. O. Miller Army 1943 - 1946 • Chas. Mansfield USMC 1954 - 1956 • Warren Bissell Jr. Army 1966 - 1969 • Nathaniel Wells US Army 2008 - • Warren H. Bissell Army 1942 - 1945 • Lloyd Schmidt Army 1953 - 1956 • Delane E. Schmidt Army 1955 - 1957

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• Lewis A. Schmidt Army 1944 - 1946 • Cpl Schoenauer Norman Ray, Sr. US Army Korea • Paulding Cty Veterans Service Office • Lennis Saylor US Army 1956 - 58 • Paul J. Schmidt Army 1946 - 1948 • Glen W. Schmidt Navy 1945 - 1947 • Con W. Shuherk USCG 1983 - 1989 • Matthew B. Saylor USAF 2000 - 2004 • Roy J. Schmidt Army 1951 - 1953 • D. J. Cadwallader 1st Lt. USAF WWII • Michael H. Brady 1st Lt. USAAF WWII • In memory of Roy Benschneider Army 1942 - 1946 • Gene Flaugh US Army 1967 - 69 Vietnam War • Dale Litzenberg US Navy 1941 - 45 • Dave Riggenbach US Army • James Litzenberg US Navy 1966 - 70 • Ray H. Riggenbach US Army • Tommy Litzenberg US Army • Jason Cluts Army 2006 - 2014 • Louis Bradfford WWII POW AAF • Dick Wannemacher National Guard • Paul B. Elick Sgt. Army Korea • Harvey E. Hyman WW2 and Korea • Frank P. Wetli Army 1964 - 1966 • Jerry Burgoon Army 1967 - 1969 • George L. Elick Army 1964 - 1966 • Delmar H. Schwab SSgt. USAF 1956 - 1965 • Gene Olwin Army Medic 1970 - 1972 • Bruce Mansfield Navy Ret. 1967 - 73 • Daniel Kuhn Korean War • Marion Burkley SiC US Navy 43 - 46 • David D. Elick Army 1951 - 1953 • Rick Burkley Cpl. USMC

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1969 - 71 • Michael Osborne Sgt. Army 1965 - 67 • Ned A. Springer National Guard • Sp4 John Hall US Army 1968 - 1970 • Marv Thompson US Army 1965 - 67 • John R. Daeger USMC 1968 - 1972 • James C. Miller US Army • Dean and Jean Zartman Family • Dean Miller Marine Corps • Philip D. Miller US Army • Michael Jerome Cpo. US NAvy, Ret. Desert Storm • Major Klinker WWII US Navy • Darrell Yenser USMC 1958 - 1961 • Henry Hook US Army 1945 - 47 • John Overmyer Army 1968 - 1970 • James Overmyer Army 1961 - 1963 • Ed Hook Army 1956 - 1958 • Kerry Hook US Army 1968 - 69 • Larry Tumbleson USN Vietnam Vet. • POW WW2 Arnold Benschneider • Jack Kipfer Vietnam 1970 - 72 • Terrence J. Kipfer US Army 1970 - 1976 • Sgt. Tumbleson ARNG Served OiF • Gary Gerardot Army 1969 - 1971 • Gerald K. Crone Korean War Sp4 • Steve & Donna Crowley USMC Two of the few • Richard D. Burk Pvt. 1st Class US Army WWII • Earl D. Huebner USNG • Robert Williams Army 1971 - 1972 • Raymond C. Demoss US Navy 1945 • Steven M. Head Army 1969 - 1971 • Richard Barrand USMC Korea 52 - 54 • Elzah Skidmore US Army • Robert J. Steffen MSgt. USAF *58 - 80 • Robert H. Leloner US Navy • Ray

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W. Long III USAF 1981 - 2001 • Norbert Fisher USMC 1954 - 1957 • Gene Edwards USAF 1966 - 1970 • Spc Schoenauer Jakob Patrick II Bravo Inf. Iraq • Neal D. Burk Vietnam 1971 - 74 • In memory of Edward A. Hooker • Richard Schmidt Army • Harley Young US Navy World War II • Merrit Young Armed Forces World War II

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.

Location. 41° 4.752′ N, 84° 43.377′ W. Memorial is in Payne, Ohio, in Paulding County. It is at the intersection of South Maple Street and Orchard Street, on the right when traveling north on South Maple Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 9 S Maple St, Payne OH 45880, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Ohio’s Black Swamp

and in the Till Plains.

It is also in the American Midwest

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

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4. Buckeye Park Veterans Memorial

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); Nickel Plate Railroad Depot (approx. half a mile away); Nickel Plate Railroad Caboose (approx. half a mile away); Ohio Department of Natural Resources 75th Anniversary (approx. half a mile away); Wiltsie Cemetery World War Memorial (approx. one mile away); Antwerp (approx. 7 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 7 miles away); Antwerp and Carryall Township (approx. 7.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Payne.

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7. Buckeye Park Veterans Memorial

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9. Buckeye Park Veterans Memorial

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Credits. This page was last revised on August 5, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 11, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 113 times since then and 28 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on July 11, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. 7, 8, 9. submitted on August 1, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. 10. submitted on August 5, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.