PUTNAM COUNTY- Sunday’s Memorial Day observances in Carmel and Lake Carmel were both well attended despite pouring rain and chilly temperatures.

The mercury read 47 degrees at Lake Carmel when 65 men and women donning rain gear shivered during the traditional ceremony. An hour later more than 100 packed the Carmel Veterans Hall in the county seat for another long-established gathering.

Putnam’s Director of the Veterans Services Agency Karl Rohde emceed both ceremonies quoting the late General George Patton: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died; rather we should thank God such men lived.”

Memorial Day ceremonies are scheduled for today in communities across eastern and western Putnam County.

Members of the Charles Rodda family gathered in Lake Carmel to honor those who died defending America’s freedoms. The Lake Carmel monument is dedicated to the memory of Rodda, who served in combat
An attendee remembered the fallen
Vietnam veteran and Kent Highway Superintendent Richard Othmer addressed the gathering in Lake Carmel
Karl Rohde greeted guests on a raw Sunday morning
Memorial Day remembrance
Members of the emergency services community were in attendance including veteran Lake Carmel FD member Fran McCarthy


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