Volunteers needed to help cemetery in Feeding Hills

AGAWAM, Mass. (WWLP) – Volunteers are needed to help put American flags on the gravesites of veterans in Feeding Hills.

The Western Hampden District Veteran Services is looking for volunteers to meet at the Springfield Street Cemetery is located at 1078 Springfield St in Feeding Hills, on Saturday, April 20th at 8 a.m. This location is across from Sacred Heart Church.

Springfield Street Cemetery was established in 1929 and has more than 4,000 memorials, 52 of which are veterans, according to findagrave.com. The oldest veteran dates back to 1847, 96-year-old Phineas Leonard.

• John George Andros
• Gregory Keith Barrows
• Betty L. Bava
• James T. Bava
• Philip E. Bernier
• David Gordon Blackburn
• Victor “Bobby” Bonavita
• Daniel Warner Brown
• SSGT Gary A Brunault
• Anthony Chiba
• Charles Henry “Bubba” Doucette Jr.
• Edward Anthony Easton
• Bernard J. Fickett
• William T. Gonet
• Edwin L. Granger
• Harold H. “Sonny” Guidi Jr.
• James J. Hovagimian
• Alvin Harold Jacobs
• William C. “Bill” Jeserski
• Roswell Lee Kenyon
• Edward Joseph Kisielewski
• Richard Milo Langdon
• Phineas Leonard
• Maxwell R Lester
• Frank William Mastromatteo Jr.
• Elery G. Montagna
• Martin J. Moran
• Donald F. Nardi
• Fred Luman Norris
• Arthur L. “Tom” Pomeroy
• Malcolm P. Rose
• John Edward “Big John” Sopet
• Anthony P. Strycharz
• Edward Edmund Swiderski
• Maryan Jacob Szczygiel
• Edward W. Talmadge
• Donald Terpening
• Louis Tetrault
• Samuel S. Thresher
• Ralph Joseph Tortoriello
• Anthony W. Trabold
• Raymond L. Trabold
• Robert J. Turnbull
• Charles Bertram Tyler
• Antonio Vieceli
• Harold J. Vrenna Sr.
• Harry Alfred Warrington
• Guy F. Waterman
• Warren Harding Wells
• Henry C. Whitlock Jr.
• LT Loren Cecil Wilder
• George D. Woodworth
• Karol Klemons Woyshnis
• Charles E. Yelinek Sr.

A rain date has been scheduled for the following day, Sunday, April 21.