Baker City DAR chapter honors veterans across eastern Oregon
The Lone Pine Tree DAR chapter handed out flags at Mount Hope Cemetery and placed wreaths on veterans' graves across six eastern Oregon counties. Its work reaches from Baker City to Malheur County.
The Lone Pine Tree Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has been keeping veterans visible in Baker City and far beyond with hands-on work at Memorial Day observances and graveside tributes. Under regent Betty Milliman, the chapter has helped distribute American flags at the Memorial Day ceremony at Mount Hope Cemetery and organized Wreaths Across America efforts to place wreaths on veterans’ graves.
On June 26, 2026, the chapter drew local attention for a role that is part remembrance and part service. Members Roberta Morin and Lynne Zwanziger have been among those carrying out the work, which reaches across Baker, Union, Wallowa, Grant, Umatilla and Malheur counties. That six-county span gives the Baker City chapter a wide footprint in eastern Oregon, where rural distances can make volunteer help especially important in keeping veterans honored in public spaces.
The chapter’s work is rooted in an organization that was founded in 1890 and requires members to document lineage to an American Revolution patriot. But its modern role is concrete and local: placing flags, laying wreaths, and making sure veterans’ graves are not forgotten when families, schools and community groups gather to honor military service. At Mount Hope Cemetery, that can mean a visible presence on one of Baker City’s most important days of remembrance. Across the rest of the region, it means a volunteer network that extends into county cemeteries and community ceremonies outside the city limits.
For Baker County, the chapter’s reach shows how civic groups still carry part of the burden of public memory in rural places. The work does not replace government services, but it does fill a practical need by keeping ceremonies staffed, graves marked and veterans’ service acknowledged in communities spread across eastern Oregon.
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