WAA 2-for-1 wreaths still available through Dec. 31

December 27, 2025 at 6:59 pm Derrick Stuckly

Local News

Veteran Greenleaf Fisk, is buried at the cemetery named for him and was honored with a Christmas wreath on Dec. 13, 2025, which was Wreaths Across America Day.

If you would like to honor veterans buried at Greenleaf Cemetery next Christmas with beautiful, fresh balsam wreaths, NOW is the time to sponsor.

Until midnight Wednesday, Dec. 31, the number of Greenleaf Cemetery wreaths sponsored for 2026 will be doubled by Wreaths Across America (WAA).

“Donating NOW gives us the best chance to reach our 2026 goal of 2,000 wreaths,” explained Mary Lee Bailey Shelton, Brownwood’s Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) wreath liaison. Brownwood’s DRT partners with WAA to honor with a wreath every one of the 2,000 veterans buried at Greenleaf during the holiday season.

Wreaths are $17 each. A box of 12 wreaths is $204. Wreaths may be purchased online at WreathsAcrossAmerica.org/TX1050P. If you prefer to donate by check, make check to WWCDRT, and mail it to Nancy Lowry, Treasurer, P.O. Box 272, Bangs, TX, 76823. Checks must be received by Wednesday, Dec. 23.

The two-for-one special applies only to veterans’ wreaths sponsored through a registered sponsorship group. The Brownwood DRT is a registered sponsorship group.

Because WAA issues a tax-deductible receipt, the receipt will only reflect the amount actually sponsored (not the amount matched).

The Group ID (TX1050P) and the date the order is placed will automatically trigger wreath matches. The wreaths WAA donates to match will not be on receipt.

The Welcome W. Chandler Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas would like to thank everyone who joined them Saturday, Dec.13, for the wreath-laying ceremony at Greenleaf Cemetery. All 2,000 veterans buried there had a wreath laid on their grave.