SANFORD — Folks will pause here on Tuesday, May 23 to remember some local folks who perished in Vietnam or as a result of the war.

Those who died in combat — some born and raised here, another who married a local girl and others, who died during the Vietnam War  of non-combat related causes, will be remembered.

The Fallen Veterans Project  — Vietnam will present ceremonies at Sanford Veterans Memorial Gymnasium, just as there were to remember those who perished in World War II and in the Korean War. 

The presentations  will take place at 9:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

In Sanford, there were several hometown fellows lost to combat-related deaths — U.S. Army Private First Class William Robert Batchelder, who is listed as dying June 10, 1965; U.S. Army Specialist David Harold Alexander, who died Dec. 16, 1968; U.S. Army Private First Class Paul Leo Cyr, April 29, 1967; U.S. Marine Corporal John Harold Cash Jr., May 12, 1968; U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael Richard Pickles, April 27, 1970; U.S. Marine Corporal Richard Paul Glaude, June 10, 1967 and U.S. Army Maj. Robert Lee Baker, Nov. 27, 1970, who was raised on the Sanford-Lebanon border and  buried in Sanford.

As well, U.S. Navy Seaman Kenneth Charles Lockwood, who was born in Hollywood Florida, and married a local girl, Elizabeth P. Libby, died in combat Feb. 29, 1968; records show he is buried at Oakdale Cemetery.

Also perishing were Leo Lantagne, who served in the U.S. Armyand  died of a heart attack while serving in Germany, and Maurice Sheppard, who served in the U.S. Air Force and died in a car crash.

The war claimed more than 58,000 American lives before the fall of Saigon in 1975.

— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 324-4444 (local call in Sanford) or 282-1535, ext. 327 or twells@journaltribune.com.