Charles Sheets, President
Arbovale Cemetery Association
The Arbovale Cemetery Association invites members of the community and especially family and friends of loved ones who were laid to rest in the Arbovale Cemetery during the past year, to the annual Memorial Day Service Sunday, May 28, 2 p.m. at the Arbovale United Methodist Church.
Over the past years, it has been a tradition during the service to honor those who were interred during the year by calling their name and presenting a flower in their honor to a family member or friend. We are requesting that family and friends of the deceased be present to designate a person to accept the flower and place it in a basket which will be taken to the cemetery following the service.
The Pocahontas County Honor Corps will complete the program with a flag ceremony at the main gate of the cemetery following the memorial service. They will also acknowledge approximately 400 veterans who are interred in the Arbovale Cemetery by placing a flag at the grave of This year’s guest speaker for the annual Memorial Day service will be county resident Terry Gett. Although now retired, he was, for more than 10 years, a partner in owning and operating Computers-R-Us, a computer repair business in Pocahontas County.
Gett and his wife, Dee, live in Dunmore and have been actively involved in the Dunmore United Methodist Church. He is a member of the Durbin Lions Club. Gett is an Oklahoma native and a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during the latter years of the Vietnam era. He was a Specialist in the part of the Army now known as Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW). Following military service, Gett earned a B.S. in Mathematics at Oklahoma Baptist University, and then had a long career as a computer pro- fessional. He worked on several large-scale software development projects for the military before moving to Pocahontas County in 2008.
For more information about this service, contact Charlie Sheets at 304-456-4762.