Jamestown Memorial Day events honor veterans across the city
Jamestown marked Memorial Day with a citywide service route, from the Gladstone Inn to Nickeus Park Bridge, Fort Seward and local cemeteries.
Jamestown’s veterans, families and civic groups marked Memorial Day with a morning of remembrance that began at 9 a.m. at the Gladstone Inn and then moved across the city to honor neighbors who served. The Jamestown Patriotic Council organized the observance, building a program around a remembrance service, a speaker and the Drum and Bugle Corps.
Theresa Haag, president of the council, said the program started at Shady’s in the Gladstone Inn & Suites, continuing a local tradition that has made Memorial Day one of Jamestown’s most visible public tributes to military service. The opening service set the tone for the rest of the day, which combined ceremony, music and community participation in a route that brought residents to several familiar places of remembrance.
After the service, participants were scheduled to gather at the Nickeus Park Bridge for a wreath-lowering ceremony. Additional remembrances were held at Fort Seward and at city cemeteries in Jamestown, extending the observance beyond one venue and turning the holiday into a sequence of civic rituals. A free-will lunch at the All Vets Club was set for 11:30 a.m., giving the day a shared gathering point for those moving from site to site.
Stutsman County veterans service officer David Bratton tied that local tribute to a larger national legacy. “For 250 years, people in America have known the cost of freedom and have been willing to pay for it,” Bratton said, underscoring the reason the city’s Memorial Day observance continued to draw veterans, families and volunteers year after year.
The structure of the program reflected more than routine scheduling. It gave residents a clear way to pay respects in public, from the first notes of the Drum and Bugle Corps at the Gladstone Inn to the wreath lowering at Nickeus Park Bridge and the cemetery remembrances that followed. Jamestown’s observance has also kept that pattern before, with a similar 9 a.m. start listed in 2025 at Shady’s inside the Gladstone Inn & Suites.
A separate Decoration Day ceremony was also scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse State Historic Site, adding another local layer to the week’s remembrance and linking Memorial Day to Jamestown’s older history of public tribute.
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