Potter County Today
Members of the public are encouraged to attend a brief veterans’ memorial
ceremony that will be held to kick off the Potter County Veterans Gravestone
Restoration Project. It’s scheduled for 9 am Saturday, May 13, at the Eulalia
Cemetery. The ambitious mission to clean and restore grave markers for hundreds
of military veterans buried in Potter County is a project of Potter County’s
Veterans Service Committee (Bill Simpson, Paul Heimel and Dawn Wooster), which
has partnered with Eulalia Cemetery for a pilot project. After the ceremony,
volunteers will fan out across the cemetery to clean the gravestones of
designated military veterans. Those interested in joining the work
session should contact Eulalia Cemetery board president Steve Erway
(steven.erway@northwest.com).
This is just the start of a countywide project that will continue for many
years. Several cemetery managers, community leaders and other volunteers have
already signed up. Regular updates on the Potter County Veterans Gravestone
Restoration Project are being posted on a Facebook page, “Military Veterans of
Potter County,” and disseminated by email. Anyone interested in being added to
the mailing list should contact Dawn Wooster at dwooster@pottercountypa.net or
814-274-8290, extension 207.
