Women’s Club partners with Wreaths Across America to honor veterans

BRICK TOWNSHIP — The Women’s Club of Brick sponsored a Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Kettle Creek Cemetery on Birch Drive in Brick on Dec. 14 for the second year in a row.

Women’s Club President Cheryl Dyer said, “This year, the Club covered the cost of all the wreaths needed for the veterans.”

According to the club, they took on this worthy cause because it is consistent with the club’s mission to enhance the quality of life within the community and transform public interests and concerns into meaningful projects and programs.

The club works with and supports other nonprofit organizations and local businesses to achieve its goals. 

According to the club, working with Wreaths Across America on this national ceremony has been both enlightening and rewarding.

The ceremony included an overview of Wreaths Across America and its mission to remember the fallen, honor those who serve and their families and teach the next generation the value of freedom; a brief history of the cemetery, which dates back to 1753 according to Stephen Kuber, president of the Kettle Creek Cemetery Association, and Barry Houman, Treasurer of the Association; instructions for properly laying the wreaths on veterans graves; and bagpipe music played by Jane Collins while participants laid wreaths on 24 veteran’s graves.

The wreaths were placed upon the graves of six civil war veterans, three from World War I, eight from World War II, four from the Korean Conflict and three from the Vietnam War.

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