Members of Keeper Respess family with color guard from Coast Guard Auxiliary Mathews, Flotilla 66.
Photo by A. Pasek
On Saturday, April 7, 2018, the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society honored six lighthouse keepers in ceremonies at four cemeteries in Mathews’s County Virginia. A specially designed Lighthouse Keeper Grave Marker was installed at each grave site.
President Greg salutes the dedication of Keeper Respess’s marker.
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The family of Keeper Crewe at his marker dedication. Daughter Glenna Crewe Hudgins (center – wearing
tan top coat) spoke of her father’s remarkable life.
Photo by A. Pasek
Article in the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette Journal
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