I attended the dedication ceremony for the Fletcher Cemetery Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day last week. Despite an inordinately windy day, the rains held off and the ceremony was well received. Easterday Construction was contracted to provide the new memorial foundations, plaza and retaining walls. We donated the flag pole foundation and erection of the … Read more
This is a project from last year. We relocated the Veterans Memorial Monument to a new base with a plaza and pedestal bases for additional markers. We donated the installation of a new flagpole including the new concrete flagpole base. If you can’t attend this memorial dedication, please remember our veterans in your own way.
Lenker services completed the monument move last week. They also removed and buried the old monument base, so the site looks significantly different! This was a delicate procedure and Tom Lenker is one of the few people I would trust with the relocation of this irreplaceable historic monument. The move was completed without a hitch … Read more
We’ve been working on the Veterans Memorial at Fletcher Cemetery the last couple of weeks. The monument bases were formed and poured. We’re completing the retaining wall and preparing to move the existing monument. We estimate the existing monument weighs approximately 4 tons, so this will be a delicate move for an irreplaceable historic marker. … Read more
Becky and I attended the Memorial Day service at the Fletcher Cemetery just outside Hamlet yesterday. It was a very respectful service and I was pleased that they had a reasonably good turnout with a spread of ages. Thank you to the veterans there and across the nation for their service. I spoke to one … Read more