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Truxall Community Veterans Memorial

 
 
Truxall Community Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Bradley Owen, August 15, 2025
1. Truxall Community Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
In honor and memory of the Citizens of the Truxall Community who served their country

World War I

☆ Ebersole, Frank • Guido, Giacmo • Guido, Dominic • Guyer, Joseph • Householder, Homer • James, William H. • Moore, Lester • McKinney, Alfred

World War II

☆ Lamb, Jack D. • Adams, Frank • Adams, Zulton J. • Adams, Andy • Anderson, Thomas • Browell Martin M. • Boucher, Angelo • Brink, Leroy J. • Boarts, Arnold A. • Candaro, Norman • Chrdaro, Anthony • Cardaro, William G. • Curcio, Gerharr L. • Campbell, Paul E. • Craig, Paige E. • DeMurro, Vince • Doka, Lester • Doka, James • Forney, John N. • Filler, Stanley • Gilchrist, Wilber B. • Griffith, Furman P. • Griffith, Dale G. • Guntrum, Carl • Gacik, Joe • Gacik, Louis G. • Grazetti, Joseph • Hauserman, Francis • Hoak, Merle • Hick, Robert W. • James, Martin W. • Karas, James • Klazon, Andy • Kocka, Ernest • Kocka, Charles • Kocka, Raymond • Kwiatkowski, John • Kwiatkowski, Frank • Lambing, Blair • Lawerence, Leonard • Lawerence, Clarence • Libengood, Martin L. • Libengood, Samuel • Lenz, Donald

McCullough, Howard R. • McManus, Kenneth • Maust, Harry C. • Marangoni, Marrino • Moore, Alexander Y. • Moore, Elmer E. • Moore, Lawerence E. • Moore, Harmer D. • Moore, Leland G. • Morris, Collins • Miller, Robert • O'Brien, Henry C. • Orr, Robert • Patterson, Milton • Palmer, Henry M. • Palmer, Jesse C. • Pearson, George S. • Patoniak, Martin F. • Patoniak, Joe J. • Previne, John P. • Previne, James • Posney, Patrick • Piper, William E. • Plahs, William E. • Rimmel, William G. • Reed, Floyd • Redmond, Leonard A. • Rupert, Robert • Rubright, Clair • Ross, Lacy • Sallade, Lloyd Jr. • Shumaker, Robert • Satarurio, Geno • Schaeffer, Bert • Steele, John H.
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• Stiffey, Kenneth A. • Smith, Eugene F. • Serventi, Bruno • Trinclisti, James P. • Trinclisti, Lewis P. • Trinclisti, Frank J. • Uptegraph, William A. • Williams, Steve • Watkins, Wayland W. • Watkins, William C. • Watkins, Thomas

 
Erected 1947 by The Citizens of Truxall and Bell Point.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 40° 32.663′ N, 79° 32.984′ W. Memorial is near Apollo, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County. It is in Bell Township. It is on Bell Point Drive (Local Route 811) just south of Kochka Drive (Local Route 397), on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 684 Bell Point Road, Apollo PA 15613, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Laurel Highlands and in Greater Pittsburgh. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, in Appalachia, and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically,
Truxall Community Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Bradley Owen, August 15, 2025
2. Truxall Community Veterans Memorial
it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Drake Log Cabin (approx. 2½ miles away); Oral History of Apollo Mosaic Mural (approx. 2.7 miles away); Pittsburgh-To-Harrisburg Main Line Canal Greenway (approx. 2.7 miles away); Leonard C. Miller (approx. 2.7 miles away); Nellie Bly (approx. 3 miles away); Fort Hand (approx. 3 miles away); East Vandergrift Veterans Memorial (approx. 3.8 miles away); St Gertrude Roman Catholic Church (approx. 3.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Apollo.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on August 21, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 21, 2025, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. This page has been viewed 107 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on August 21, 2025, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia.
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