The Honor Roll Project - Bethpage, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed this Honor Roll in Bethpage, NY to make the names visible to search engines like Google and Mocavo so that family researchers may find them. Please consider finding the Honor Roll(s) in your town or village and transcribing them on your blog or website. And even if you don't have a blog or website, see the Honor Roll Project for instructions on how you can submit a transcription.

Bethpage is home to the library that hosts two of the genealogical society meetings I try to attend every month, the Irish Family History Forum and the Italian Genealogical Group.

Bethpage is most widely known, however, as the home of Northrup Grumman, the company that designed and built the Lunar Module for the Apollo missions.

This memorial is located at the Bethpage Community Park at 1001 Stewart Avenue, which is also home to the Town of Oyster Bay Skate Park and Skating Rink.

 The thing I love most about this memorial is this plaque.

It isn't entirely clear if the high school band mentioned here had the plaque made or just did the research to find the names of the fallen, but they are responsible for its inclusion either way and I love that.

Guido Farinaro

Otto C. Grabow

James M. Hasenflug

William F. Henaghan

Leonard F. Jantzen

Stephen Karopczyc

Gerald W. McCaffrey

Peter R. McCarthy

Michael R. Morgan

The only other Honor Roll here is for World War I. I would feel safe in assuming that like other plaques I have photographed, the stars next to three of these names indicate that those men were killed in action.

Raphael Amendola

Lewis J. Bourguignon

★ George Benkert, Jr.

Herman Brandt

★Benj. Bartovitch

Frank Campagna

Milton J. Deubel

John Garrett

Gustave Gloeckler, Jr.

Louis Hoebel

Edwin Henn

Jason D. Howell

Townsend Jackson

Clarence Jackson

Henry Koehler

William Kranz

Frank Klug

Fred. W. Lauman

Jacques Liandier

Milton Leslie

Sidney Leslie

Walter Leslie

William Loftus

William Margot

Arthur McCord

★ Archibald McCord

Jacob Miller

Edward Nardi

Joseph Niemczyk

Herman A. Ott

John V. Olsen

Humbert Possenti

Edwin A. Stevens

Carl Schwartz

Henry Stumpel

Harry Seaman

William Vogtlander

Henry A. Wagner

Valentine Walsh

William Winter

Vincent Winter

Joseph Zuk

Alfred J. Zwickert

William H. Zwickert

Although these are the only rolls of honor here, three plaques remember those who served in World War II and those who gave their lives in the Korean War and Vietnam War.

Also remembered at this memorial are two firefighters killed in the line of duty.

Captain Joseph Dunn

Fireman Robert Hassett