Sunday, September 1, 2019

The Honor Roll Project - Mineola, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed these Rolls of Honor in Mineola, NY to make the names visible to search engines 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.




The war memorial and rolls of honor for Mineola are found in Memorial Park behind the Mineola Memorial Library.






DEDICATED TO
THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN HONOR OF THOSE
FROM THIS VILLAGE
WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY

IN MEMORY OF


Roger W. Patterson
George H. Griffiths
Charles E. Butler
Charles G. Gossell
Adolph Block
Thomas J. Halleran



HONOR ROLL


Grace Briggs
Florence Brown
Evelyn S. Cowell
Nelly B. Jackson
Sadie Logan
Jeannette Pringle
Helen R. Millar
Lillie M. Nohowec
Mary Pearson
Laura E. Pickens
Alice M. Ryan



Joseph Allwang
Archer Albin
Arthur H. Andrews
Ralph Addeo
Charles Anderson
Andrew N. Burkard
Philip Borner
Lester D. Birdsall
John Balena
John W. Behrmann
Charles Blancke
William J. Borner
Harry G. Burt
William J. Breen
August Block
Frank J. Cihlar
Benjamin C. Craddock
Michael Carula
Cecil Cornwell
John J. Coleman
Edward Coffey
George W. Davis
Antonio DeMartino
Peter J. Dowdell
Clarence W. Dean
Frederick T. Eward
Douglas W. East
Harold P. Fleming
Alvin C. Free
Martin Fisher
Sebastiano Fusco
John F. Fleming
Leroy Forsman
John Fenski
John Fordham
Charles A. Gagliano
John Garvey
William Gherken
John H. Goatley
Charles D. Gower
Harry E. J. Green
Griffin M. Gower
William L. Gay
Harry E. Hicks
William J. Hickey
Philip G. Hubert
John Hughes
Philander Hartwell
Hubert V. Horan
George H. Johnson
Conrad G. Johnston
John Krumboly
John Kaspoposki
George A. Kramer
William Kempf
Walter F. Kelleher
Maurice Katz
Henry Labels
John Labens
John Laiola
Charles S. Lyon
Alexander D. Latham
Frank A. Laiola
Howard L. Mott
Charles L. McKee
Carl J. Moorehouse
Pellegrino Mozzonzoello
Gilbert Moorehouse
Joseph Nohowec
Richard J. O'Neill
John J. O'Connor
Joseph J. Percival
Frederick Platt
Joseph A. Patterson
Thomas K. Patterson
John F. Petre
Herbert Pape
Grovano Passanello
George Pearsall
Henry A. Ryder
Charles Rousseau
Matthew R. Rousseau
George Sause
Alfred Sommers
Oscar Swenson
Peter C. Sylvester
Thomas F. Shade
Theodore K. Schmidt
Martin Schneider
Henry W. Super
Andrew M. Smith
Frank E. Seaman
Harrison Seaman
Peter K. Thomopulos
Charles Trojan
Frank Tischner
Edgar Tubbs
Kenneth K. Underhill
William L. Walker, Jr.
Harry Whitney
Edward B. Whitney
Arthur K. Westbrook
Joseph Yankuksi
Henry Young
ERECTED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA
COURT 444



Under the WWI Honor Roll is this plaque.


THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, AND ALL THOSE WHO SERVED WITH HONOR FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR II, KOREA, VIETNAM AND ALL OTHER MILITARY ACTIONS SINCE 1919.

ADOLPH BLOCK POST #1305 VFW
MINEOLA MEMORIAL POST #349 AMERICAN LEGION



This plaque is on the other side of the boulder. It illustrates the "price of freedom" in the numbers of participants, POWs/MIAs and deaths in service for all military actions from the American Revolution to Bosnia.

Also found around the monument are these plaques.




IN MEMORY OF OUR VETERANS

TREE PRESENTED BY THE MINEOLA MEMORIAL AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY UNIT 349
1992




THIS TREE PLANTED IN MEMORY OF

Roger Williams Patterson
WHO DIED APR. 23, 1918
FOR GOD AND COUNTRY




DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN VETERANS WHO WERE PART OF THE AMERICAN ARMED FORCES TOTALING 16,353,659 DURING WWII
DECEMBER 7, 1941 - SEPTEMBER 2, 1945
THE WAR COST AMERICA 407,316 DEAD IN BATTLE
POW'S: 124,079 MIA: 30,314

PVT. ADOLF BLOCK POST #1305
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE U.S.
MINEOLA, NOVEMBER 11, 2001




DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED DURING THE VIETNAM WAR FROM JULY 8, 1959 TO JANUARY 27, 1973 AND THE FIVE YOUNG MEN FROM MINEOLA WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR



Spec 4 Thomas Steven DeLuca
Pfc Peter Geoghan
Spec 4 Joseph Gilbert
Spec 4 Thomas Nicholas Motto
Sgt Kenneth Charles Scruton


THE AMERICAN LEGION MINEOLA MEMORIAL POST 349

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES
PRIVATE ADOLPH BLOCK POST #1305 MINEOLA




IN MEMORY OF

SPECIALIST FOUR THOMAS N. MOTTO
UNITED STATES ARMY
BORN JULY 20, 1948
KILLED IN ACTION JULY 3, 1969
IN THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
AWARDED A BRONZE STAR MEDAL
FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE



As it states this plaque was placed

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE L.I.R.R. TRAGEDY DECEMBER 7, 1995
DONATED BY THE FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS

This tragedy was a shooting on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train that claimed the lives of six Long Islanders, three of whom were from Mineola.

Finally, the largest monument in the park was an Eagle Scout project and is to remember those killed on September 11th.





2 comments:

  1. Thank you for this.

    Adolph Block is my grandfather's brother

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thank you for this history . Adolf Block was my great- uncle.
    J.T.

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