Paola in Miami County, Kansas — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Miami County Veterans Memorial

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1. Miami County Veterans Memorial

Inscription.
Dedicated to those who serve

Leroy J. Niebaum · Carl J. Morgan · Marvin C. Morgan · Ecle C. Morgan · Billy D. Griffith · Donald Franklin Platt · Carey E. Ore · Michael L. Heckman · Kenneth Benedict · James Dean McCullough · Larry W. Dunaway · Herbert G. Homrighasuen · Glenn A. Evans · Dan T. Wards · Willard George Dudley · James M. Chisam · Charles Ivory Pritchard · William L. McNatt · Charles J. "Pat" Donovan · Clarence Edward Evans · Lilah E. Rausch · Larry A. Nation · James A. Fisher · John T. Slayman · Hal R. Simons · George Bond · Ray Minden · Harvey J. Crist · Loren E. Pfaltzgraff · Glenn H. Prothe, Sr. · Martin E. Prothe · Lucky Lindy Leroy Meisel · Fred E. Meisel · Max Herbert Meisel · Ben F. Medlin · James A. Carnes · Joseph F. Carnes · Charles B. Carnes · Victor W. Hines

Everett McBride · Lewis E. Monthey · Charles F. Ostrander · Wiley J. Ostrander · Chuck C. Ostrander · Larry E. Ostrander · Paul D. Ostrander · William David "Bill" Watkins · Thomas D. Watkins · Nolan Dean Istas · Hugh Laverne Walters · Jay Anthony

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Walters · Donald L. Meinig · Larry D. Everhart · Virgil "Vic" Majeski · William J. Davis · Donald C. Kincaid · Joseph "Doc" Beets · Ross Sinclair · Ira Sinclair · Donald L. Karr · Dan E. Karr · Billie Allen · Harry H. Slyter · Stanley E. Slyter · David R. Slyter · Michael T. Dreyer · Edward L. Reyelts · Donald R. Thomas · Randall E. Thomas · Aaron M. Thomas · Weldon H. Debrick · Vernie G. Fisher III · Ross G. Dees · Joel Ahlbrandt · Robert D. Ingersoll · F. Joe Burchett · George W. Croxton · John A. Koelsch

Kenneth R. Bond · Kenneth A. Slack · Dennis "Joe" E. Hay · Clarence Pfannes · Leo Pfannes · Leonard W. Pfannes · Roy A. Kaufman · Edward Schlotman · James E. Schlotman · Dorothy Schlotman Kiser · Rex J. Kiser · Roy F. Kiser · Raymond E. Kiser · Philip A. Messer · Randy J. Stoughton · Daniel P. Welch · Frank Zahn · Frank Zahn, Jr. · Henry W. Zahn · Ernest E. Zahn · William J. Chamberlin · Evelyn M. Slayman · Dr. Anthony W. Fairchild · Wayne W. Fairchild · H. Glenn Kester · Bennie H. Kester · Gary D. Nutt · Roger N. Benedict

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2. Miami County Veterans Memorial Dedication

· Marvin R. Barden · Fred J. Barden · Michael W. Ingle · Jerry R. Peuser · Harold F. Peuser · Hon. Robert Haskins Miller · David William Miller · Charles Eddie Buchanan · George Fordyce · Larry J. Mooney · Gene Kelly Crane

Joseph C. Pobuda · Edward E. Haselrick, Sr. · Edward E. Haselrick, Jr. · David L. Dollar · Kenneth D. Head · Norman L. "Red" McDowell · Roy Ivan Baldwin · Frank Baldwin · Louis H Quincy · John F. Frazee · Roy Thurman Brown · Orlen L. Bond · W. A. Ricketts · John T. Slayman · William "Bill" Slayman · Mark Alan Wilson · Harold D. Hendrickson · Darold G. Hendrickson · Jack Ellsworth Carter · Richard H. Everhart · Ron J. Lucas · Darwin A. Brocker · M. Evan McKoon · Eldon W. McKoon · Donald L. Meinig · Gary L. Meinig · Donald F. Lindsey, Sr. · Steven R. Huber · John T. Huber · Stephan LaVerne Timm · Billy R. Floyd · Edwin Arthur Lee · Philip Lee · Juanita Lee · Bill F. Browning · John F. Sims · Keith Mayes · Dannie W. Stewart · Jerry R. Brown

Carl L. Gregg · Dale L. Dollar · Walter Lloyd Morris · Gale D. Woodrome · Joseph Eugene Weaver · Howard Walter Rhodes · Frank Rhodes · Harold Edmund Rhodes · Eugene Kenneth Austin · Ronald Beets · Rev. Frank N. Schepers · Neal A. Higginbotham · Eli Robert Bodine · Dr. Rex C. Stanley · Alice M. Scott · William E. Magee · Donald Edward Lash · Milford E. Lash · Clifford Oscar Durland · Leslie R. Block · Virgil Sullard · Neil Blakeman · Jeff A. Haley · James W. Parmelee · John J. Lyder · Vivian C. Holmes Kneibler · Milferd C. Miller · Harold A. Miller · Byrle D. Miller · Ned Lynn Kelsey · Louis David Miller · Leon John Miller · Vergil C. Thomas · Richard M. Mott · Damon E. Kettler · Fred Kettler · John

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3. Miami County Veterans Memorial

Looking north.

E. Jarboe · Robert W. Selzer · Carl L. Tennewald · Bearl E. Addy

Gilbert G. Johnson · William H. Winfrey · E. Earl Ventura · William H. Oberheide · Alvin E. Walters · Harold J. Oberheide · Robert E. Heckman · Marvin P. Matherly · Carl F. Gump · Robert Edward Miller · John I. Taylor · Fred Hall Green · Joseph D. Buchman · Wilbur G. Branson · Dale Allen Mitchell · Robert D. Wehmeier · Eugene L. Mueller · Henry Merritt Durland · Bill L. Hinman · Ted E. Lewis · Kennith Orville Baldwin · Milton R. Welch · C. D. Majors · Wesley O. Barricklow · Clifford Lee Durland · John L. Smith · Kenneth LeRoy Caraway · Jeffrey Scott Caraway · Keith E. White · Mike Steck · Claude I. Taylor · Arky Thomas · Roy M. Thomas · Cecil L. Hewitt · Robert G. Dalrymple · Lonnie F. Dalrymple · Richard D. Dalrymple · Ronald T. Todd · Charles E. Karigan · John R. Karigan

Alan D. Bal · Donald D. Blundell, Sr. · Ronnie Dale Smith · Willard C. Bowman · James Spitzenberger · Wilbur R. Riley · Edward R. Riley · Bill Peuser · Jay M. Sheldon, Jr. · Miriam Siebert · Jack

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4. Miami County Veterans Memorial Honor Roll

K. Krum · Raymond E. Seck · Edward W. Hurlbut · Sam Farley · Warren J. Medlin · James J. Wills · James V. Wills · Harold Sodamann · Bob L. Madison · Delbert Naylor · Dennis M. McKaig · Donald Dean McKaig · Roy L. McKaig · Mark L. Williams · Wilburn M. Gallagher · Robert W. Harrington · Jack L. Cordle · Raymond H. Cornelius · George F. Manlove · Louis W. Hughes · Steven M. Cowman · Merton C. Fort · Stephen D. Hoffman · James Delbert Bracken · John H.S. Hoffman · Ernest G. Seeman · Cecil Delos "Barney" Gonser · Richard D. Lewis · Jerry D. Smith · Winfred D. Lawrence

Wayne O. Ellis · Wayne H. Smith · Byron Manchester · Arnold F. Rentz · Joseph A. Bennett · Wm. E. Griffin, Jr. · Buel L. Talley · J. Pete Bell · Willie E. Burson · William D. Burson · Harold E. Achey · Damon E. Slyter · Fred J. Barnes · Harry O. Barnes · Jerry A. Burgoon · Terry W. Burgoon · Michael S. Hudgeons · Gene W. Murray · Milton D. Skeens · Warren L. Skeens · William E. Skeens · Donald W. Skeens · James Wayne Skeens · Herman J. Murray · Donald W. Herrs · Theodore Matzkanin · David W. Brown · James H. Haley · Richard E. (Dick) Chancellor · David M. Cheasbro · Don (Jim) Torrez, Jr. · John W. Skeens, Sr. · Daniel J. Scherman · Walter E. Burkhart · Jessie J. Lawrence · Henry D. Lawrence · Leo E. Theobald · Gerald L. Heckman · Gerald E. Wheller, Jr. · Marvin E. Rhoades

Dr. Jack G. Rowlett · William D. Bright · William L. Johnston · Dale A. Godfrey · Daniel A. Godfrey · Lon M. Skeens, Jr. · William H. Skeens · Carl K. Horttor · J.R. Gilman · J.R. Gilman, Jr. · J.R. Gilman III · Lewis W. Case, Sr. · Winfred J. Wells · Gerald Leroy Stephens · Orville M. Garrison · George M. Garrison · Herbert

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E. Isenhower · Gerald Dale Woosley · Anthony Butel · Lyle Wobker · Lloyd O. Johnson · Michael Edward Plummer · Raymond E. (Gene) Farmer · Matthew Jason Farmer · Mark Andrew Farmer · Clifford C. Wright · Maynard Lee Hewitt · Floyd J. Grimes II · David N. Grimes · Charles R. Brocaw · Robert E. Duval · Emmor S. Quincy · Walter L. Quincy · John R. Doherty · Ernest Wayne Hastings · Viva Buchanan · James H. Pritchard · James L. Pritchard · Billy G. Baxter · James Dean McCullough

Leo M. (Jack) Johnson · Henry Brandt · Harold C. Peckman · Noah Benedict · Max Layland · Richard Henry Selle · Otto John Minden · Paul F. Smith · Anita M. Guilfoyle · Warren C. Jackson · Lester A. Windler · Paul I. Brown · Donald A. Whisner · David C. Morris · Tony Calovich · Robert "Bob" Phillips · Robert S. Dempsey · John Floyd Rand · Clifford L. Mendel · James L. Mendel · Stan Moulder · David F. Whisler · Frank Schoenberger · James H. Clemens · James A. Oliver, Jr. · Donald Dunn Low · Rick Blumhorst · Kevin W. Pinneo · Lloyd Dean Pearce · John R. Plummer · David E. Orr · Drew McLaughlin, Jr. · Richard Eppler · Buster H. McCoy · John A. Fanning · Harold F. Brandt · William Glen Ufford · Stanley Eugene Ufford · Daryl Rohrer · Lindsay Adam High

Leo R. (Jack) Johnson · Paul A. Mueller · Joseph M. Mueller · Bernard "Bernie" Moore · William "Ed" Massey · Charles W. Little · Harry W. Morgan · Robert P. Schmid II · George E. Knecht · Stephen A. Graue · Bob Fehling · Herbert L. Fickel · George William Dageforde · Marv L. Dunaway, Jr. · James J.W. Kelley · Jerry Franklin Kiser · Larry E. Doherty · Donald L. Magerl · Thomas W. Hamlin · Lloyd A. Hamlin · Dale E. Hamlin · James L. Hunsperger

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6. Miami County Veterans Memorial Honor Roll

· Wm. (Bill) Junior Hart · Glenn H. Witt · Edgar L. Wiltse · Ivan L. Williams · Wm. Bill White, Jr. · Lawrence (Larry) D. White · Clyde Mathis · Domingo J. Torrez, Sr. · William (Bill) E. Thomas · Leo C. Trageser · LaVerne F. Timm · Terry L. Dubois · Martin Gerken · Dean E. Smith · Ralph W. v. Minden · Viola Knoche Davidson · Charles Crawford · Harold Lee Stults

George F. Crosby · Bernard J. Scherman · Donald F. Scherman · C. Jerry Scherman · Robert E. Shope · Roy E. Wingfield · Randy J. Stoughton · George Verlas Sims · Gordon Stump · Ray L. Dial · Robert D. Penn · Billy Lee Russell · Joseph Ray Russell · Raymond L. Debrick · Ernest E. Debrick · Elra J. Debrick · Arnold E. Debrick · Ivan H. Christy, Jr. · Gayle O. Tennis · Charles M. Crum · Frank T. Carpenter III · Allen L. Asher · Ann Asher · Charles Ayres, Jr. · Darrel L. Brocker · William N. Bennett · Joseph L. Butel, Sr. · Joseph L. Butel, Jr. · Eugene M. Butel · Robert L. Gardner · Warren J. Grimes · Damon M. Grimes · Robert Samuel Haight · John Harold Knoche · Richard D. Hoffman · Leonard William Stults · Christian "Chris" Benus · Elmer E. Carter · Kenneth C. Zahner · Roy Lawrence

Wendal D. Oldham · Eric Lynn Prothe · Earl V. Anderson, Jr. · Jacob J. Spies · John Spies · Clarence Spies · James A. Spies · Wilfred Spies · Dayton Kresin · Adam P. Green · David O. Vickers · Arthur J. Vickers · Ben V. Bright · Donald Clyde Gard, Jr. · W. R. Bigley · Wilbur D. Whittaker, Sr. · Billy J. Richardson · Thomas E. Stiles · Harold E. Richardson · George N. Finley · Robert L. Muchow · Daniel L. Muchow · Don R. Muchow · Michael Laird Alt · Franklin E. Sandridge · Terry L. Chronister · Russell L. Heger · Paul

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A. Sandburg, Sr. · William O. Ingersoll · Louis F. Goodeyon · Jerry F. Goodeyon · Nicholas E. Mitchell · Paul Johnson · Fred F. Prothe · Wm. H. (Bill) Chamberlain · William Lee Cutburth · William A. Cutburth · Dean D. Kohler · William Everett Cutburth · Charles Frances Wells, Jr.

Bobby J. McQuay · Sherman L. Laas · Marion A. DeVore · George O. DeVore · Richard W. Ryckert · Jon C. Ryckert · Rick J. Wills · Donald A. Wilbur, Jr. · Charles R. Wilson · Lester L. Debrick · Clyde Fred Brewer · Homer V. Shineman · Donald F. Lindsey, Sr. · Gary L. Meinig · William E. Rayne · Daniel W. Blanck · John P. Gaughan · Fred E. McConnell · Ola E. Mooney · Robert "Bob" H. Baker · Floyd E. "Bill" Massey · Richard W. "Dick" Massey · William B. "Bill" Massey · Clarence C. Clausen · Clarence E. Benne · Harold G. Sevy, Sr. · Richard E. Wadley · Wayne Robert Butler · Richard Paul Butler · Lawrence Edward Bauer · John E. Bennett · John Wm. Bennett · Larry R. Davidson · Gerald L. Walters · Leslie N. Barrett · Damon A. McMahan · Walter L. Reynolds · Nicholas J. Chamberlin · Jerome H. Donner · W. Wayne Cohoon

Harley E. Keeton · Elvin E. Keeton · Ron L. Lucus · Roy W. Pinneo · Vernon Lee Fannan · Travis Wood · Russell T. Wood · Roderic T. Wood · Leon B. Paine · George L. Chambers · Robert L. Chambers · Richard L. Chambers · H. Lynn Cramer · J.J. "Jack" Steele · Richard D. Chronister · Willis E. Calahan · Ronald G. Stuteville · James A. McRoberts · James W. McRoberts · Basil D. Coffelt · Joseph A. Taranto · James M. Hambleton · Valdean J. Putzier · J.C. "Red" Robertson · George T. Doherty · Emery L. King · David Roseberry · Lee Crowell · Vernon D. Van Horn · Richard C. Kaiser · Robert

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J. Kaiser · John H. Kaiser · Kenneth Richard Miller · George Dedrick Miller · Carl Calvird Kincaid · Wilfred L. Duethman · Sanford Fay Mathis · Verne A. Knoche · Anthony Shangler · Alfred Duethman

Edward W. Kaiser, Jr. · E. Joseph Kaiser · Martin R. Clark · William Greason Kennedy · Harold D. Smith · L. Dale Smith · James Herbert Jacobs · Louis F. Dicke · Ralph E. Dicke · Joseph M. Dicke · Henry Arland Dicke · Harold F. Dedrick, Jr. · Kenneth J. Dedrick · Carl F. Tepesch · Virgil Loren England · George Lee Barber · Richard Michael Kielian · Lester L. Lindsey, Jr. · Lester L. Lindsey, Sr. · Thurman Leroy Spears · Bernard J. De Grande · Claude A. Davis, Jr. · Vernon A. Ellis · Troy E. McCoach · Dwight L. Manchester · Paul T. Clark · Charles M. Fenoughty · William Byron Shields · Robert E. Shields · Clarence F. Benne · John M. Eggleston · William A. Cowden · J. Frank Shinkle · Charles A. Fisher · Jackie W. Barnes · Lee Roy Hall · Lora Koup Rimmer · Thomas L. Dees · Carl T. Springer · Kurk R. Derks

Raymond L. Stagg · Kenneth D. Kaufman · Clarence F. Cundiff · Clarence (Buck) Hollinger · Richard W. Chancellor · Keith L. Kettler · Robert K. Achey · Lester E. Gorman · Jess A. Bolling, Sr. · Emery H. Bigham · Robert I. Nicholson · Randy D. Hayes · Marty K. Trageser · Charles W. Kistler · Kevin W. Schasteen · Stephen R. Speck · Terrill Williams · Robert E. Brunts · Buford C. Debrick · Kenneth E. (Gene) Henson · Christopher D. Harris · Richard L. Peterson · Glenn D. Hendrickson

William (Bill) Kaufman, Jr. · Richard (Sonny) Kaufman · Samuel McGuire · Howard Boslaugh · Robert G. Chancellor · Bruce E. Kettler · Herbert D. Achey · Leroy M. Elliott · Henry W. Flemings, Jr.

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9. Miami County Veterans Memorial Honor Roll

· Herschel Hoy, Sr. · John C. Chamberlin · Charles L. Smith · Jerry E. Trageser · Robert R. Kistler · Arthur A. Schasteen · Robert C. Calvin · E. Lon Thornton · Charles R. Henson · Frank L. Tomlinson · Donald K. Henson · Rachel M. Harris · Jerry D. Henson · Howard Lee Chester

James A. Kaufman · Richard Grant · John R. West · James G. Byard · Willard R. Dexter · Jesse Torrez, Sr. · Charles Hugh Marcum · Melvin Earl Smith · William J. McVay · Lacy H. Green · James E. Seck · John Wm. Craig · A.D. Metcalf · Steven T. Kistler · David A. Zimmerman · David D. Driskell · Billy J. Lucas · Elman R. June · Ralph H. Knoche · Ronald D. Borovicka · Raymond O. Hayes · Richard D. Williams · Charley A. Williams

John G. Kaufman · Harold G. Sevy, Jr. · Glenn H. Blume · D. Joe Schaub · John McMullan · Leo M. Knecht · Oliver D. Rinehart · Delmar Foster · Wiley L. Smith · Jeffery Scott Mersman · Charles W. Worthington · Abraham E. Hay · Calvin D. Knapp · Dale K. Reynolds · V.J. Elson, M.D. · Robert A. Poteet, Jr. · Carey Walter McDaniel · Matthew Shane Smith · Asel H. June · Ralph "Joe" Kaufman · Chester H. Attebery · W. Gene Cole

Erected by Michael D. Johnson, City of Paola, Miami County Commissioners, and Citizens & Businesses of Miami County.

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

Location. 38° 34.507′ N, 94° 51.845′ W. Memorial is in Paola, Kansas, in Miami County. It is at the intersection of Baptiste Drive and Hospital Drive, on the right when traveling west on Baptiste Drive. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Paola KS 66071, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Eastern Kansas,

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specifically in Bleeding Kansas Border War Country,

and in Greater Kansas City.

It is also in the American Midwest,

in the Corn Belt,

on the prairies,

on the Southern Plains,

and on the Santa Fe Trail Corridor.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: City Hall Fire Bell (approx. 0.7 miles away); The Potawatomi Indians Trail of Death (approx. 0.8 miles away); Paola Veterans' Memorial (approx. 0.8 miles away); Baptiste & Mary Ann Peoria (approx. 0.8 miles away); Miami County History (approx. 0.8 miles away); Original Land Office (approx. 7 miles away); The Potawatomi Trail of Death (approx. 7 miles away); John Brown Country (approx. 7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paola.

Also see . . . Miami County Historic Monuments. County website entry (Submitted on January 21, 2022, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)

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Miami County Veterans Memorial Service Flags image. Click for full size.

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24. Miami County Veterans Memorial Service Flags

Miami County Veterans Memorial Bench image. Click for full size.

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25. Miami County Veterans Memorial Bench

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26. Miami County Veterans Memorial Bench

Miami County Veterans Memorial Pavers image. Click for full size.

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27. Miami County Veterans Memorial Pavers

Representative sample

Miami County Veterans Memorial Thanks image. Click for full size.

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Miami County Veterans Memorial Founders image. Click for full size.

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Miami County Veterans Memorial Charter Members image. Click for full size.

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30. Miami County Veterans Memorial Charter Members

Credits. This page was last revised on September 4, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 17, 2010, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 1,138 times since then and 95 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. submitted on September 17, 2010, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.