Through Jan. 16, two-for-one Wreaths Across America deal for Christmas 2024

January 4, 2024 at 7:33 am Derrick Stuckly

Local News

Brownwood’s Early High School graduate and freshman student at HSU flyer pictures The Six White Horses from Hardin Simmons University posting the colors at the 2023 Wreaths Across America ceremony at Greenleaf Cemetery. Caroline Welker, Early High School graduate and freshman student at HSU, belongs to the team and is second from right in the photo. Miss Welker is also a member of Brownwood’s DRT. The flyer promotes the two-for-one wreaths campaign sponsored by Wreaths Across America. If purchased on or before Jan. 16, sponsors donate two wreaths for the price of one.

Two thousand Texas veterans lie buried in Greenleaf Cemetery. The Welcome W. Chandler Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas wants to remember all 2,000 veterans with a Christmas wreath next December.

Why are the Daughters asking Brownwood citizens for help with their goal a full 12 months before the wreath-laying event? Because from today through Jan. 16, for every wreath sponsored Greenleaf Cemetery will receive two.

The two-for-one Wreaths Across America deal makes the Brownwood DRT chapter’s goal to honor all Greenleaf veterans achievable.

Thanks to the Brownwood community DRT honored 700 veterans at Greenleaf in 2023. The women’s organization needs to more than double that number to reach their goal in 2024. With the two-for-one campaign, Daughters know the goal is attainable.

To sponsor wreaths online go to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/TX1050P and follow instructions. To sponsor by check, make check to WW Chandler DRT, and mail to Nancy Lowry, Box. 272, Bangs, TX 76823.