Verona’s former chief of police, Doug Huber, will be the grand marshal of this year’s Memorial Day parade.
Huber is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War. When he returned to the U.S., he worked as a teacher before becoming an officer with the Verona Police Department. He rose to the rank of chief and also served at times as Verona’s township manager.
The Memorial Day parade will step off at 10 a.m. from Everett Field and proceed west on Bloomfield Avenue to Town Hall, where a ceremony will be held.
Memorial Day is a solemn federal holiday to honor those who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. The names of Verona residents who died in World War I are on the Doughboy statue in front of Town Hall, while those who died in World War II are on the granite monument closer to H.B. Whitehorne Middle School. Those who died in Vietnam are on a plaque inside Town Hall. No Veronans died in the Korean conflict. The names of the dead will be read during the Memorial Day ceremony and Verona Scouts will put flags on the monuments. The dead are:
Pvt. John E. Ahrendtsen (World War II)
Cpl. Arthur L. Albe (World War II)
EM Arthur J. Anderson (World War II)
Cpl. Ralph S. Buggeln (World War II)
Pvt. John H. Chidester (World War II)
Sgt. Daniel W. Conklin (World War II)
Lt. Edwin E. Courter (World War II)
Pvt. Benjamin F. Douglas (World War I)
Cpl. Hobart Earle (World War II)
Pvt. Constantine Emanuel (World War II)
Pvt. Robert O. Fielding (World War II)
Lt. John L. Gage (World War II)
Lt. Gordon T. Gates (World War II)
Lt. Gerald Daly Geoghegan (Vietnam)
Capt. David Q. Hammond (World War II)
Cpl. Anthony Hein (Vietnam)
Lt. William Hinrichs (World War II)
Pvt. Michael Kiefer (Civil War)
Sgt. Robert B. Klepzig (World War II)
Pvt. Michael C. Leone (World War II)
Sgt. Albert B. LeRoy (World War II)
LCPL Robert A. McCloskey (Vietnam)
Pvt. Winfield Scott McIntyre (World War I)
Lt. Nicholas F. Michetti (World War II)
Sgt. Peter F. Nicoulin (World War II)
Pvt. Max Novick (World War II)
Maj. Eugene Pabst (Vietnam)
Pvt. Walter S. Personett (Civil War)
Lt. James S. Randolph (World War II)
Lt. William A. Robertson, IIIÂ (World War II)
CM George Schiabor (World War II)
Pvt. Edwin C. Smoot (World War II)
SPC Alan K. Taylor (Vietnam)
Lt. Joseph Watson Taylor (World War II)
Lt. Warren O. Van Winkle (World War II)
Pvt. John B. Wands, Jr. (World War II)
Pvt. Robert R. Whealdon (World War II)
Sgt. Charles Weller (World War II)
Lt. Robert R. Wilson (World War II)
MM Walter Budd Wimley (World War II)
Sgt. Frank G. Wittenweiler (World War I)
MM William A Wittenweiler, Jr. (World War II)
Sig. Thurston Fuller Woodford (World War II)
Photo by Ed Carattini Jr.
