9th District of Mississippi - Post Everlasting

The Post Everlasting Ceremony is The American Legion's way of recognizing those Post Members who have
passed away. Annually, each Post's Members who have died are officially transferred to Post Everlasting.

Department of Mississippi District 9 Post Everlasting

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     Each American Legion Post conducts a solemn Post Everlasting Ceremony once each year. The lights are turned off or dimmed in the Post's Hall, and the Service may be conducted totally by Candle Light from a table. The Posts' Commander then reads the names of the Members being transferred, and the Post Adjutant records the names in the Roll Book of Post Everlasting. A "Tripod" of three Military Rifles, with a Helmet placed over the Barrels, represents the Legionnaires service in the Armed Forces of The United States. A Legion Cap is placed on the Tripod in recognition to their Service in The American Legion. The Helmet, placed upon a tripod, holds a Sacred Fire used to transfer the deceased Legionnaires' Records from each Post to Post Everlasting. The Post Sergeant-At-Arms then transmits each deceased Member's Record individually, by setting fire to each of the deceased Legionnaires' Records and placing them into the Post Everlasting Fire in the Helmet.
     At some Posts the Chaplain then reads, "Our Heavenly Father in His infinite wisdom has Transferred our Comrades to the Jurisdiction of the Post Everlasting of The American Legion. May their souls rest in Peace. Amen." Or the Chaplain reads, "O Lord, you have showed us that death is but the Gateway to a more Glorious Life, and that we must not fear its coming; and we know, also, that neither Life nor Death can separate us from Your Love. Assure us yet again that our Departed Comrades are not lost to us, but sharing new Life with You in the Kingdom of Our Father, where we shall in Your Good Time be reunited. We know Them to be with You Forever. Amen."
     Families of deceased Members are often invited to attend the Post Everlasting Ceremony. Each family may receive an American Legion Post Everlasting Certificate noting their loved one's Transfer to Post Everlasting. In addition, some Posts provide in person or by mail, a Presidential Memorial Certificate for each of the deceased Legionnaires. This Certificate expresses the Country's grateful appreciation of the Veteran's Service in the United States Armed Forces and is signed by the current President of the United States.

District 9 Post Members Transferred To Post Everlasting


City - Town - County	Post	Post Everlasting

Hattiesburg	24	William Barber	Needa Probst
		J. J. Patterson	Harrison S. Ford
		George Runge	Ross C. Harvey
		Leslie Q. Harper	Lionel J. Gardner
		Robert Breland	Copelen P. Bradley
		George Runge	Ross C. Harvey
		Leslie Q Harper	Lionel J. Gardner
		Robert Breland	Coplan P. Bradley
		John W. Sullivan	L. E. Oneal
		Harold Jackson	Bill Stonestreet
		Harley A. Krause	Raymond O. Skinner
		James M. Johnson	Frederick A. Wild
		Louie Tyrone	Richard Zehender
		Odie M. Baughman

Biloxi	33	James K. Mitchell	George Buck
		Lionel J. Balius	William R. Swinconos

Ocean Springs	42	George E. Parker	James Duke
		Eral Richard

Lucedale	53

Standard/Kiln	58

Leakesville	59

Sumrall	61	William P. Hatten	Cecil Fortenberry
		Glen Hatten	Robert Hatten
		Charley T. Lott	Leo Lott
		M. L. Butler	Melvin C. Conner
		Euegine Riles	Graham Daughtry
		C. B. Ellis

Picayune	73	Emile M. Textor	Richard E. Lamousin
		Owen A. Rester	Harold E. Province
		Lowell A. Pearson	L. D. Whitfield
		Leo V. Sones	B. R. McRee
		Ira E. Lee

Waveland	77	Anthony J. Sconza	Robert Oneto Sikorski
		Louis J. Fountain, Jr.	Odis Bowen
		Philip P. Hennessey	John A. Mahe
		Charles R. Armstrong	Edward J. Cook

Perry County	80

Lumberton	84	Edwin H. Potter	Obie L. Freeman
		Hollis Peavy

Wiggins	87

Columbia/Kokomo	90

McLain	98

Poplarville	100

Purvis	103

Gulfport	119	Glenn D. McFaddin, Jr.	Kevin Wallace Graham
		Donald K. Lungren	Alphonso C. "Pastor" Ramos
		Oren Williams, Jr.	Donald Ross Atwood
		Floyd Wagner	Lawrence Parker
		Carl Decidue Alfonso

Bay Saint Louis	139

Petal	146

Pass Christian/Lakeshore	152

Pascagoula	160	E. T. Adkison	Charles P. Brooks, Jr.
		John J. Gaffney

Lumberton	215

Hansboro	223

Hattiesburg	225

Moss Point	243

Gautier-Vancleave	1992	Ronald Ferrill	Willam Scheffler
		Kenneth Phillips	George McElhenriey
		Charles McCarrell

Long Beach	1995	James E. Reilly

D'Iberville	2002

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