How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKEPORT, Calif. – A group of community members gathered on Friday morning in Lakeport’s Library Park to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor 77 years before, to honor those who died and those who survived and later made their homes in Lake County.
Clearlake Oaks residents Ronnie and Janeane Bogner hosted the event held at the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association memorial mast in Library Park.
The last local Pearl Harbor survivors – 93-year-old Bill Slater of Lakeport – died on Dec. 31, 2017.
During the foggy Friday morning event, the events of the day were recounted, local survivors such as Slater, Henry Anderson, Clarence “Bud” Boner, Chuck Bower, Deam Darrow. Floyd Eddy, Jim Harris, Fred Leighton, Walter Urmann and dozens of others were remembered, and their names read, with a gold bell – on which all of their names are engraved – rung for each name.
The Lake County Military Funeral Honors Team also performed honors, including a gun volley and the playing of “Taps.”
Statewide, Dec. 7 was marked as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, according to a proclamation issued Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
See the local ceremony in the video above.
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