UPDATED: This story was updated to add the Memorial Day Roll Call of the names of soldiers and sailors who served, along with those who died, in service to our country.
Just like every Memorial Day for the past century, veterans read the names of Scott County’s soldiers from Civil War through Afghanistan at Scott County’s historic Summit Church.
A reverent group, some in masks, listened to recitation of more than 100 family names still familiar in the county today: Criswells, Amhofs, Baustians, Ewoldts, Gertzes, Gruenhagens, Keppys, Nagles, Saladinos, Holsts.
Some names, including Glunz, came up in more than one war.
The remembrance began at 9 a.m. with Our Savior Presbyterian Church Pastor Tiffany McClure dedicating an invocation to her Vietnam veteran father, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and Carole and Ron Oliver leading the National Anthem.
Then came the roll call, the 101-year tradition of reciting the names of those who served.
Veterans John Pischke, Ron Oliver, Tom Knapper, Duane Miller and Tom Zimmerman read the names beneath a cross built a decade ago by Our Saviour youth. They fashioned it from the cross beams of the old Carstens family’s 1865 Scott County home. Carl Carstens sat in the back row.
Organizers dispensed with the traditional ice cream social in consideration of the pandemic shutdown, and concluded with taps and a gun salute from veterans facing the historic Summit Church cemetery.
Here are the names of soldiers who served, compiled by the Eldridge VFW and American Legion.
TO THE AUDIENCE, SHOULD WE MISS SOMEONE, Please contact one of our officers and let them know so we may include them in future readings, Thank You.
CIVIL WAR ROLL CALL (Last Revision 05-2012)
George Archer
Chas. Benedict (Killed In Action November 2, 1862, at Ford's Farm, Arkansas.)
Joe D. Barnes
George Bill
Alvin B. Carter
Robert Criswell
Soloman Dopp
William Fessenden
Mike Gittens
Henry Lau
George Lamar
Samuel McCausland
Thomas McCausland
Jacob Wheeler Mound (Survived Andersonville – POW camp)
Hans Mundt
Jacob Wheeler Mound "Mowen"
John Port
Clint Parkhurst
George Steffe
John VanDuzer Civil War 20th Volunteer Inf.
James H. Wilson
Asmus Wulf (Survived Andersonville – POW camp)
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ROLL CALL
(Last Revision. 05-2009)
Nels Peterson
Madison Jefferson Smith
Roger D. Shaw
WORLD WAR I ROLL CALL (Last Revision 2013)
Charles F. Amhof
Harry L. Amhof
William Ackermann
Roland J. Baustian
Fred Brown
Hugo H. Eckermann
Valentine A. Eckermann
Charles Harvey Elsworth
Herman Ewoldt
Otto T. Ewoldt, Sr.
Robert Fields
William H. Fock
Harvey H. Gertz
Gus Glunz
William Glunz
James Hamilton
Leonard Hamm
James M. Hirl
Edward Howell
George Hogaboam (Killed In Action)
Edward Kappler
Frank Kappler
Herman C. Krambeck
Herbert Klindt
Elmer Lau
Cecil Leamer
Ben Litscher
Marc Koenig
Edward Maher
Ernest Moeller
William Moeller
William Mulethaler
John McCauley
Charles Oelerich
Detlef Oelerich
George Poppe (Poppy)
Edwin A. Rochau (Purple Heart)
William Schriefer (Gold Star) Killed in France
Harry Seligmann
Amos Snyder
Paul Suiter
Grace VanEvera
Grover Zabel
WORLD WAR II ROLL CALL (Last Revision 05-2016)
LaVerne Appleby
Clarence Arner
Elva L. Arp
Foster Auliff
Robert Ackerman
Robert Badtram
Ruth Barney
Norman Behren
Donald Bennett
Art Brockman (Killed In Action)
Cornelivs Bolsem
John K. Bonnell
Charles Brown
Elmer Brown
Hazel Hansen-Brown
Stephen Brown
Bernard Burden
Raymond J. Burmeister
Edna Hamilton-Cannon
Howard Cannon
Gene Carstens
Louis Claeys
Gladys Claussen
Lawrence Claussen (Killed In Action)
Russell Claussen
Clyde Connolly
Robert Diedrich
Melvin Lester Dirksen
Jurren Dirksen, Sr.
Dale Domer
Dayton Domer
George Bruce Dougan
Alfred Drechsler
Marvin Drenter
Milton Drenter
Arnold Ewoldt
Fred Ewoldt
Harvey Ewoldt
Rudy Ewoldt
Arnold P. Forst
Robert Fick
Robert H. Gerdts
Earl Gertz
Fred Gertz
Harvey Glunz
Walter Glunz
John Glunz
Eugene Green
Ralph Groth
Donald L. Gruenhagen
Arthur Guy
Arthur Hatfield
Howard Hamilton
Charles Hampton
Hazel Hanson
Eldon Havill
Melvin Heiler
Gordon Hellman
John Higgins Sr.
Marvin Hinkle
Donald Hoffman
Brichard Holden
Edgar Holden
Alvin Holst
Kathryn Dubil-Holst
Walton Holst
Marian Hanson-Jahn
Charles Dawson Jones
Carl Kaeferstine (Killed In Action)
Albert Kay
Lester Kay
Maurus Kepler
Joe Kimmel Jr.
Roy H. Knapper
Jack W. Koster
WORLD WAR II ROLL CALL (Last Revision 05-2015) Page 2.
Ralph Kuehl
Robert H. Lage
Normal S. Lau
Manard Lemke
Lloyd Litscher
Eugene Lively
Earl W. Lock
Vernon Long
Anthony Maag
Clarence Matzen
Marvin Matzen
Kenneth McFate
Raymond McFate
Earl McGinnis
Vernon E. Melendy (Died-POW)
Richard Mess
Robert Mess
Charles Milnes
Alvin G Mohr
Russell E. Morse
Norman Muhs
Orvil Pitsenbarger
Walter Paul
Henry Pewe
Raymond Pfitzenmaier
Richard Pfitzenmaier
Cliff Piggott
Robert Pischke
Walter Poppe
Wilbert Poppe
George Randolph Jr.
Walter Rathman
George E. Riede
Maurice Robbins
Forest Robertson
Dale H. Sawyer
Eugene E. Sawyer
LaVerne Sawyer
Arno Schaff
Royce Schaffer
Herbert Schlump
Leo R. Schmidt
Ralph Schmidt
Walter R. Schneckloth
David Schneider
Frances Auliff Schroeder
Olan Shadrick
Owen Shadrick
Lorena Seline
Mildred L. Selinger
Arthur Shaw
Harold B. Shaw
Alvin Starkweather
Harry J. Spies (Killed In Action)
Herbert Thompson
Lay Thompson
Robert Thompson
Leo Tombergs
Carl VanEvera
Donald VanEvera
Francis VanLoon
Glen Veatch
Norman Vogt, Jr.
Alvin Waetke
Robert Wallace
John Ward
Raymond Wampfler
Winston Wampfler (Killed In Action)
Donald C. Wellendorf
Clarence Wessell
Arthur L. Wilson
Jean Veatch-Wilson
Robert Wiese
John Witt
KOREAN WAR (Police Action) ROLL CALL (Rev. 6-2015)
Edward Badtram
Derryl Baustian
Lorenz Behrens
James Belk
Bob Bennett
Hans Broderson
Dennis Bruckman
Tom Cawiezell
James Criswell
Jurren Dirksen, Jr.
Don Drumm
Harold Feldpausch
Lawrence Hamann
Gary Holst
Ray Holst
Donald Isham
Ronald Isham
Donald Keding
Alfred Keppy
Jerry Kirpatrick
Elmer Klever Jr.
Joseph Kozara
Richard Kuehl
Wesley W. Kuehl
Minor Larson
Francis [Frank] I Mahar
Aurthur Matje
John W Miller
Richard R Miller
Donald Mirfield
Norman Muhs
Wayne Mumm
James R Nagle
Eugene Nelson
John C. Nelson
Eugene Newell
Eugene Nickles
Rollin G. Oliver
Henry Peters, Jr.
Orval Pitsenberger
Delmar Rathjen
Walter Rathmann
Mike Ripperger
Jim Rock
Bill Saladino
Lynn Sawyer
Milton Schatz
Norman Schroeder
Kenneth Sharrett
Bill Siladins
John Slama
Clealand Stark
Henry Stutt
Russell Tague
Wayne Waetke
Donald J Westphal
Harold Winckler
VIETNAM WAR ROLL CALL (Last Revision 5-2019)
Alan Boone (Killed in Action)
Richard Bolsem
Carl Brus
Ray Burmeister
Joseph Claeys
Malcomb Clark
Tim Clark
Lowell Crawford (Killed in Action)
William Farrell (Killed in Action)
Rodney J. DeBlieck
Calvin Dirksen
Ronald Dirksen
Rusty Ditch
Michael Doss
Willy Enders
Kim Evans
Elemer Fahrenkroeg
Thomas Farren
Gaylen Fick
Patrick Fricke (Killed in Action)
Kirk Foecking
Kenneth Fordham
Keith Gayman
Alan Gerdts
Henry K Gertz
Larry Gronwald (Killed In Action)
Morris Grunwalt
Kenneth Hamilton
Jerry Hartwig
Dale Havill
Dean Havill
David Heberling
Daniel Hennings
John M Higgins Jr
Bruce Gene Hoffman
Daryl Lee Hoffman
Alan Holst
Dennis Holst
James E. Huffman
Mylo Hurto
David L Kane Sr.
Edward Knapper (Killed in Action)
David Knapper
Doug Knight
John Knollman
Dan Koch
Eugene Koehler
Joseph Kozara
Charles Krambeck
Donald Krambeck
Keith Krambeck
Terry Kronefeldt
Kurt Kroeger
James Kuhl
John S LaBarge
Rick Lohman
Norman Lau, Jr.
Peter Lau
Kenneth Larssen
Alvin Littrel
Lyle Littrel [peace time]
Robert Louck
Bruce Maag (pronounced Maug)
Joseph Maag (Killed in Action)
Kenneth Maag
Richard Mess
Robert Mess
Duane Miller
Alan Mohr
Dennis Mohr
Charles Morse
Ronald Oliver
Mick Pachisha
Steven Palmer Sr.
Tomm Pfitzenmaier
John Pischke
Neal C. Riede
Dick Rohlf
Eugene Santee
Gerald Santee
John Santee
Steve Satre
Norman Sawyer
Jerry Schafer
Robert Schneckloth
Ronald Schneckloth
Wayne Schneckloth
Charles Sherwood
Royce Snyder
Bill Stahmer
Glen Stahmer
Steve Stark
Kenneth Storjohann
Max Tague
Mike Tague
Glen Veatch
Robert VenHorst
Jerry Vollbeer
Jerry Wilson
Richard Winterlain
Gene Wollum
Thomas Zimmermann
GRENADA – LEBANON (Last Revision 05-2009)
Gerald Bensen
DESERT STORM (Persian Gulf) ROLL CALL
(Last Revision 05-2009)
Matthew S. Brotherton
Tim Clark
Chuck Doss
Derek Erickson
Stephen Friedrick
Pat Gainer
Wesley K. Gerdts
Richard Glunz
Vincent Jackovich
David M. Knapper
Brandon Mitchell
Donnie Montegra
Dea Nelson
Mike Peer
James Smith
Edith VanEvera
IRAQI FREEDOM ROLL CALL (Last Revision 05-2019)
Chad Baetke
Jared Christner
Jason Christner
Kevin J. Clark
Kim Cover
Nathan Cox (Killed in Action)
Joshua Davis (Killed in Action)
Robert Diedrich
Rocky Doray
Jean Dumar
Jason Egger
David Foland
Greg Foland
Heather Gertz
Joseph Hanson
Jason M. King
James Knapper
Brad Korthous (Killed in Action)
Rick Lowman
Doug Peck
John Pierson
Matt Pitsenbarger
Michael Pittman (Killed in Action)
Leevon Ritter
Scott Roys
George Schaub
Peter Schaub
Thomas Schlue
Chris Skinner
Nicolas Skinner (Killed in Action)
Walter Slocum
Katie Soenksen (Killed in Action)
Scott Tague
Mike Whitaker
Brad Wilson
AFGANASTAN WAR ROLL CALL
Jim Clark
Sydnee T. Cosner
William Fellows