Memorial Day rememberances

Davenport sophomore Tessa Cormier keeps an American flag from touching the ground as she and her classmates install scores of flags at the Davenport Cemetery in advance of Memorial Day Friday, May 26.

Rhonda Brommer Kalous places a flag at the marker of Lt. Roger Mahrt at the Reardan Cemetery, Friday May 26. Mahrt was an accomplished pianist at Reardan High School who graduated in 1942. After graduation he accepted a music scholarship at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He took an absence from college to enlist in the Army Air Corps. On May 27, 1945, the B-24 on which he was the navigator lost three engines over Indo China. Mahrt baled out over water and his body was never recovered. His memorial marker is placed next to his father, former mayor Otto Mahrt, and his mother Meta.