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TAPS Continued
SPC Raymond L. Lamp, #353, MIP SGT Gary A. Odendahl, #43, MIP UNK James E. Troxell, #543, MIP
DOD: 06/18/2022 DOD: 08/10/2022 DOD: 09/12/2022
LTC Louis A. Lebel, #112, MIP CPT David W. Palmlund, #112, MIP CPO Roy B. Tuck, Jr., #530, MIP
DOD: 03/04/2022 DOD: 01/21/2022 DOD: 06/24/2022
Mr. James Curtis Love, #43, MIP CAPT Jack R. Peters, #43, MIP SCPO Stanley R. Wade, Jr., #543, MIP
DOD: 02/12/2020 DOD: 04/18/2021 DOD: 08/21/2022
Mr. Harry S. Martin, Jr., #112, MIP SMSgt Mervin L. Purdy, #133, MIP SGT Kyle D. Walker, #556, MIP
DOD: 05/17/2022 DOD: 04/15/2022 DOD: 05/23/2022
CPT Ralph L. McDowell, #112, MIP SCPO Bobby J. Ryon, #525, MIP Mr. G. Deloyd Wallis, #43, MIP
DOD: 0720/2022 DOD: 01/23/2022 DOD: 12/02/2018
A1C Clarence K. Mount, #397, MIP CMSgt Melvin C. Slate, #43, MIP LCDR Ernest D. Ward, #184, MIP
DOD: 07/21/2020 DOD: 03/25/2021 DOD: 03/17/2019
COL Samuel L. Neal, Jr., #397, MIP WO1 Jack S. Thomas, #460, MIP CPO Guy W. Wilcox, #547, MIP
DOD: 07/30/2022 DOD: 10/16/2011 DOD: 04/22/2022
CSM Henry E. Woodward, #63, MIP
DOD: 12/08/2020

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I’d like to offer my profound, heartfelt thanks to all of the participants and attendees at these solemn yet rewarding
ceremonies. I especially want to thank Brother Dean “Buzz” Grimes and Brother David Williamson for their
immense work in organizing the multitude of details required to make the Founders Memorial Celebrations such a
success. I am so grateful to have been able to work on this project with such fine, upstanding Brethren. Finally, I’d
like to thank our National Commander, Brother Randy Geck, for his steadfast support throughout the planning and
execution of these momentous events. It sincerely is an honor to serve under such a devoted and caring leader.

SAVE THE DATE!!! The ceremony for Brother Van Deventer is scheduled for Saturday, 29 April, 2023 in
Knoxville, Tennessee. Don’t miss the chance to attend this momentous ceremony which will conclude the Heroes of
’76 Centennial ceremonies paying tribute to our Order’s founders. We plan to have details available on the NSI
website before we gather for our Mid-Winter Meeting. E.I.A.R.!!!

Paul A. DeMerath, National Assistant Chief of Staff – Heroes of ‘76
Chairman, Centennial Founders Memorial Committee