Dec. 7 ceremony to commemorate 77th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

This picture from August 2010 shows several Pearl Harbor survivors and sweethearts who had made Lake County, Calif., their home. Front row, left to right, are Bud Boner, Walter Urmann, Alice Darrow (husband Dean) Vanya Leighton (husband Fred) and Jim Harris; back row, child survivor Jackie Wages, Bill Slater, child survivor Penny Lunt and Henry Anderson. Boner, Urmann, Harris, Slater and Anderson have since died. Photo courtesy of Janeane Bogner.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – The public is invited to participate in a ceremony on Friday, Dec. 7, commemorating the 77th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The ceremony will take place from 9 to 9:30 a.m. at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Mast in Library Park in Lakeport.

Honored guests will be sweethearts Alice Darrow and Charlotte Bower, whose husbands were Pearl Harbor survivors.

Darrow, a Navy nurse during World War II, took care of Dean Darrow who had a bullet in his heart, and Charlotte Bower became the wife of Pearl Harbor Survivor Chuck Bower.

The engraved Lake County Memorial Pearl Harbor Survivors' bell will be tolled with all our survivors’ names being read.

The Lake County Military Funeral Honors Team will play “Taps” and fire a salvo as the US flag is lowered to half staff in memory of those who served at the Dec. 7 attack.

The community is invited to join in honoring these men who have served our country.

In the video below, Lake County Pearl Harbor survivors visit the USS Arizona at the 69th Anniversary convention at Pearl Harbor.


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