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In Memory
More than 7,000 people are buried in the Dayton City Cemetery. Each year, over Memorial Day Weekend, the cemetery grounds are awash in color as relatives and friends remember their loved ones with flowers, and the American Legion honors veterans with flags and crosses.
Cara Breland, of Croft's Floral in Dayton, is shown placing flowers on a gravesite on Friday before Memorial Day. Croft's offers delivery service to the Dayton and Waitsburg cemeteries, which allows customers who live outside the area to have flowers placed on the gravesites of loved ones. Cara says that Memorial Day is the company's busiest time for delivery at the cemetery, but that customers order deliveries there throughout the year, including many prior to Christmas.
Each Memorial Day since the early 1970s, Jim Harting, Kent Schockley and other members of Dayton's American Legion, have placed crosses and flags at the gravesites of the more than 700 veterans buried in the cemetery. Veterans of wars going back to the early 1800s are buried there, including more than 70 Civil War Veterans.
