The following is a news release from the City of Lubbock:
In commemoration of Memorial Day, the Nancy Anderson Chapter of The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in conjunction with the Historic City of Lubbock Cemetery, will hold a Memorial Day Service on Monday, May 28, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. The service will be held in the gazebo in front of the City of Lubbock Cemetery office at 2011 E. 31st Street (two blocks east of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. on E. 31st Street). Admission is free of charge. Guests are highly encouraged to bring lawn chairs and/or blankets as chair seating will be limited.
Colonel (ret) Michael Bob Starr, United States Air Force will be the featured speaker. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America Troops will place flags on gravesites that have a Veterans Administration Memorial headstone or footstone. Friends of Indiana Avenue Baptist Church will sing the National Anthem and God Bless America, and The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard will present our Nation’s colors and honor our veterans with a 21 Gun Salute followed by the playing of TAPS. It is estimated that there are more than 2,000 veterans who are buried at the Historic City of Lubbock Cemetery. Everyone is encouraged to attend this service and place an American Flag on the grave of a veteran.
(News release from the City of Lubbock)