Wayne pa memorial day parade 2022

The annual Honesdale Memorial Day Parade is planned for Monday May 30th. The parade commences at 10am at 5th and Main Streets and will head North, turning onto 9th Street and ending at Central Park. There will be Central Park Ceremonies at 11am and ceremonies in Veterans Park starting at 12pm.

For the first time ever, the parade and ceremony will feature a female Grand Marshall and female keynote speaker, both of whom are veterans.

Max Bennett, Patch Staff

Posted Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:35 am ET

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RADNOR TOWNSHIP, PA — Radnor Township will commemorate Memorial Day with a parade and ceremony in Wayne Monday.

At 9:45 a.m., the Radnor Memorial Day Parade Committee will hold the Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony in Wayne.

The event is held annually to honor American Veterans who lost their lives in services to the nation.

Led by Grand Marshall Marsha Four, the one-mile parade route begins at the Radnor Financial Center and goes west along Lancaster Avenue to South Wayne Avenue and then ends at the Radnor War Memorial. All active and retired military are welcome to march.

Four volunteered for the Army Nurse Corps during her senior year in nurses training. After Basic Training at Ft Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, she was stationed at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, where she received orders for Vietnam.

Highlights from Four's military and civilian lifetime include:

• From 1969 to 1970 she served as an Intensive Care/Recovery Room nurse in northern I Corps at the 18th Surgical Hospital, a MUST unit, first at Camp Evans, and then relocate to Quang Tri. It was the northernmost hospital in South Vietnam. She was awarded the Bronze Star for her service.
• Four has been actively involved in veterans’ issues on a local, regional and national level for nearly 35 years. She was the initiator and Executive Director of the Philadelphia Stand Down for Homeless Veterans from 1993 until 1999. In 1997, Marsha left hospital nursing at Riddle Memorial Hospital, to began her 17-year employment with The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service and Education Center, a non-profit agency, as its Program Director of Homeless veterans. During this period she wrote grants that resulted in a 95 bed transitional residence (TR) for homeless male veterans, a 30 bed TR for some fewer women veterans and a daily day service program for homeless veterans on the streets in the Greater Philadelphia area. Marsha ultimately became the agency’s Executive Director until her retirement.
• A member of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) since 1987, Marsha served on its National Board from 1999 to 2019, the last six years as National Vice President. Over these years she developed and delivered testimony to both the U.S. House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees. Ms. Four twice served as a member and then chair of the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretarial Advisory Committee on Women Veterans. Marsha also served on the Honorary Board of the Special Forces Charitable Trust.
• Ms. Four received the Legion of Honor Humanitarian Award from The Chapel of Four Chaplains. In 2013, she was inducted into the Pennsylvania Veterans Hall of Fame and was also honored as a White House Champion of Change for Women Veterans.
• She has returned to Vietnam four times, serving on the VVAs Veterans POW/MIA Initiative team. Its work consists of assisting our government with access to information that will ultimately lead to the location and repatriation of American's missing in action.
• Marsha is married to Tony, who also served at the 18th Surg in Vietnam. They are blessed as the parents of three sons, Christopher, Nathan and Andrew, and six grandchildren.

The ceremony will also feature Hope Williamson as its keynote speaker.

Williamson attended East Rutherford High School and graduated in 1998. She attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and was a member of the Army Women’s Swim Team during her four years. Upon graduation from West Point in 2002, Hope was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.

Highlights from her military and civilian life include:

• Williamson was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving in Baghdad, Iraq (2003-2004) as a Battalion S-6 for 2nd Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment, 1st Armored Division and then in Al Taqaddum, Iraq (2006-2007) as the S-6 and S-3 for the 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps.
• Williamson awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon.
• She began working for Merck in 2009 and is currently an Engineer in their Manufacturing Division. She is married to J.J. Williamson II, and they have five children: Kendra (13), Jimmy (11), Kylie (9), David (6), and Jason (1.5).

This marks the first time both Grand Marshall and Keynote Speaker are women veterans.

Radnor Police Department officers will be posted at every street intersection and commercial parking lot to assist motorists during parade hours.

"We look forward to participating in the Memorial Day Parade as well as providing public safety services for the event," said Radnor Township Superintendent of Police Christopher B. Flanagan. "The parade and ceremony provide an opportunity to show the community that we honor those who have fallen as well as those who proudly serve our military."

After the parade, the traditional memorial service will be held at the Radnor War Memorial on South Wayne Avenue.

Police will be stationed around the memorial to prevent motorists from accessing the area for the safety of the memorial participants.

The Parade will be recorded and broadcast throughout the year on Main Line TV 21.

For more information, contact Parade Chairman Neal Fulton at [email protected].

Due to the holiday, Radnor Township is suspending collections for Monday. Trash and recycling collections will be one day behind next week, the township said.

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