More than 80 people braved the sweltering heat to witness the 11 a.m. June 19, Juneteenth, ceremony at McPherson Cemetery honoring Peter Pointz, an escaped slave from the Civil War era, who spent the remaining years of his life in Clyde. The chief purpose of the ceremony was to remember Pointz and to mark his […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — One Kansas family is fighting to show respect to their loved one, trying to get him a headstone over 50 years after he was killed in action. Private First Class Christopher Gutierrez is buried at Wichita’s Calvary Cemetery. He is a Purple Heart recipient, shot and killed in South Vietnam in […]