For years, sisters Pat Spencer and Maggie Barnett have helped decorate veterans’ graves at the Fort Scott National Cemetery during the Christmas season as part of the Wreaths Across America campaign.
“We’ve been asked, ‘Why don’t we do something like this for Highland Cemetery?’” Spencer noted this week.
They’ll give it a shot this year.
Spencer and Barnett, who are members of the LaHarpe Veterans of Foreign Wars post, are partaking in a “wreath blitz” to come up with more than 230 Christmas wreaths to decorate veterans’ graves at Highland…
