One day before the floats, the bands and the picnics, Lawrence Countians will gather to pay somber tribute at the graves of those who in fact are memorialized on Memorial Day.

The annual Woodland Cemetery service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the soldier’s section of that graveyard.

Master Chief Joseph Benning (Ret.) of the United States Coast Guard will deliver the keynote address. Officers of the areas veterans groups will lay a wreath at the monument to fallen soldiers.

Mark McCown is master of ceremonies for the event. Lori Donohue will present patriotic musical selections. The Rev. Chad Pemberton will give the invocation and benediction. Ironton VFW Post 8850 will play “Taps.”