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Kennedy Blvd Church Of Christ Trunk or Treat, October 22nd

October 22nd, 2025 by Church Office

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Native Son, Robert Lane, to Speak at Drew County Museum on World War II Drew County Veterans Project, November 9

October 22nd, 2025 by Submitted

Robert Lane, a native of Monticello, has always been fascinated with the many WWII veterans of his Drew County childhood. These men and women were people he saw every day–church members, community leaders, local businessmen, doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, grocers and restaurant owners, who, after the war, simply came back to Drew County and returned to their lives without any fanfare. To Lane, their service to our country during this pivotal era, as well as the broad field of where they had served, is local history that deserves to be documented and remembered.

On trips back home to visit his parents, the late Corine and Herbert Lane, and his sister, Judy Bynum of Collins, he often requested that local vets recount their WWII stories that are sadly being forgotten with the passage of time. Recently, as he began researching the countless communities of Drew County where these soldiers lived and the theaters of war where they were sent, respectively, he was amazed at the width and breadth of the contribution to the war effort from our tiny county.

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