High Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home will be one of over 1600 cemeteries across the US and the world participating in an upcoming international event. This Saturday, December 15th at noon all locations will be participating in a ceremony to dedicate over a million wreaths to honor U. S. veterans past and present. The local ceremony at High Lawn will be held in the chapel of the funeral home with Ernestine Phillips, Lt. Commander of the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corp (Retired) as the guest speaker.  After graduating in 1955 from WVU, the Lt. Commander entered the Navy in 1958 and served in Naval Medical Centers around the globe. This included being the second female to serve at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Lt. Commander Phillips retired from the service in 1974 but is still quite active today in several positions throughout Southern WV. 

The Army JROTC unit of the Fayette Institute of Technology will serve as honor guard as well as placing wreaths on the designated graves of veterans in High Lawn Memorial Park.