The Honor Roll Project - East Williston, Long Island, New York

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed these Rolls of Honor in East Williston to make the names visible to search engines so that family researchers can find them. Please consider finding the Honor Roll(s) in your town or village and transcribing them on your blog or website. Some rolls are long and some are short but there's no deadline, you can take as long as you need to transcribe an honor roll.  I've learned so much about local history through this project and when someone finds the name of an ancestor in one of my posts they are grateful and excited! And even if you don't have a blog or website, you can ask me or another participating blogger. I would be happy to create a post to share your photos and transcription!

East Williston is an incorporated village in Nassau County on Long Island (not to be confused with another area named for a different Willis family in upstate NewYork) and the Village Green and rolls of honor sit near its train station just off of Hillside Avenue. This is one memorial I didn't have to Google since I just happened to notice the backs of the wreaths laid there last Memorial Day while I was sitting and waiting for a train to cross Hillside while I was on my way to work.

This memorial contains rolls of honor for World War I and World War II. It also contains plaques in recognition of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. It appears that a name was added to the Vietnam War plaque after it was made.

THAT THE NAMES OF 

THE MEN FROM THIS COMMUNITY

WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

MAY NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED

1917-1919

John S. Bailey

J. Harper Bonnell

Harold Bouck

Raymond L. Hayden

George Hauser

John Hughes

William J. Kempf

Allison M. Lederer

Charles Parker

John Razzano

Herbert Richter

Thomas L. Robinson

Milton G. Schenck

William W. Stoothoff

James Tilly

Howard F. Townsend

Chester George Valentine

Henry L. Wagner, Jr.

Edward West

Anthony Yadisko

Benjamin Zaleski

Joseph J. Zeblinksy

IN HONOR OF

THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES

OF OUR COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR II

EAST WILLISTON, NY

★ Harry R. Ludwig

★ Forbes D. Park

James Adams

Arnold P. Barnett

H. Howell Bartlett

Walter E. Bartlett

Walter H. Bartlett

Edward M. Becker

William F. Becker

Alfred H. Bengeyfield

William H. Bengeyfield

Charles F. Bertschinger

James E. Bertschinger

Peter Blank, Jr.

Wilford A. Bryde

Wilbur J. Buschmann

Frank J. Cashin, Jr.

James W. Cashin

Robert F. Clancy

Richard L. Clark

Harold A. Cobb

Francis W. Colby

Karl S. Day

Edward V. Dembinski

James A. DeVeer

John A. DeVeer

Burton E. Dezendorf

William H. Dickson III

Donald W. East

William H. Edwards

Maurice A. Ekos

William F. Fenno III

Frank A. Fitton

Walter B. Frame

William R. Frederick, Jr.

James P. Gallacher

Ruth B. Grace

Jack K. Greenland

James R. Gurney

John G. Haggist

Fremont B. Hallock

Richard F. Hamm

Kenneth Harder

Eugene H. Harned

John F. Hartigan

Thomas M. Hearn, Jr.

Herry T. Helsher

Howard S. Heydon

LeRoy E. Hopkins

David W. Hopper

Earle A. S. Hopping

Joseph D. Hudson

Richard A. Hudson

Fred M. Ironside

John J. Johnstone

Richard A. Jonas III

John E. Kingston

Robert J. Kolyer

Walter Kronimus, Jr.

Kenneth A. Lent

Frank S. McKee

George S. Martin

Harry Mathewson

Edwin D. Maxfield

Philip R. Meyer

Frederick Michel, Jr.

Edwin J. Mihan

E. Eliot Miller

Edwin C. Monkmeyer

Craig R. Murray

Frederick M. Nolte

Howard P. Palmer

Ernest D. Perkins

Peter J. F. Rager

Henry B. Robinson

Thomas J. Roche

Thomas J. Rohan

Malcolm T. Ryan

Ward K. St. Clair

Howard E. Schenck, Jr.

Wilbur D. Schiller

Edson S. Schmid

Robert E. Schreiber

Julius H. Seeth

Richard M. Seymour

Robert J. Shotter

Pentti K. Siiteri

John L. Slusser

Robert N. Swanson

Charles W. Thill

William I. Todd

Howard M. Trowern, Jr.

Alfred R. Valentine

Richard H. Valentine

Edgar J. Viscecchio

Paul H. Vonderhorst

Wallace G. Voegel

James S. White

Paul J. Wiggins

Daniel E. Winneke

Theodore W. Winter

This plaque acknowledging the Korean War is dedicated to all the men and women who have served and those who have made the Supreme Sacrifice.

And this one is dedicated the same way but remembers the Vietnam War and specifically one man: William Nuebel, Jr. (1947-1967).