Hear from veterans who died in service, in a tour of Chillicothe's Grandview Cemetery this Sunday, August 21st, 2022.
The "All Souls Tour" by the Chillicothe Restoration Foundation is being held in conjunction with the Memorial Events for Navy man, Joseph Hoffman, killed in the 1941 Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor.
The tour will include 10 stops at the graves of veterans from wars between the Civil War and the Vietnam War. At each of these stops there will be a member of the Chillicothe Civic Theater portraying the soldier interred there.
The graves of more than forty soldiers from that time period buried in Grandview will be marked, although only 10 will have speakers. Local historian Kevin Coleman will also be on hand to share the history and prehistory of the cemetery.
The tour is 1 to 5pm, August 21st, at a cost of $10. Booklets about the soldiers' lives will be available the day of the tour for $5.
Grandview Cemetery is off Belleview Avenue in Chillicothe.