Daughters of the American Revolution
Members of the local Captain Robert Orr Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution have taken on the job of planting and tending flowers at the All-Veterans Memorial in Brainerd. A crew of four to six women do the maintenance about six times a year.
August 29, 2025: A reporter from Lakeland Public TV recorded an interview with members of the Robert Orr Chapter of the DAR at the All-Veterans Memorial in Brainerd. That interview will be combined with others nationwide and will be run sometime this fall.
August 30, 2025: KLTF Radio in Little Falls, MN, was at the Crow Wing County Fair doing a live broadcasts. They interviewed Paula Persons about the Disabled American Veterans organization and about military veteran grave cleaning.
DAR member Paula Persons
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KLTF Announcer Ron Speckler
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August 4, 2025: DAR members were out on this rainy day tending to flowers at the All-Veterans Memorial. Thanks ladies.
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September 23, 2024: Member of the DAR cleaned the Mahlum family gravesite at Evergreen Cemetery in Brainerd. As you can see from the photo, there is a huge difference between the original and the finished one. At the bottom, you see John Mahlum's before and after grave marker from 1918. The Brainerd VFW is the John Mahlum and Nick Hanson Post 1647, going back to 1918. Thanks ladies.
May 20, 2024: The DAR crew was busy again at the All-Veterans memorial in Brainerd getting it ready for Memorial Day. They were joined by Eagle Scout Craig Coonan.
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(l-r) Mark Persons from the Brainerd VFW handed a $2000 check to Faye Leach, Regent of the DAR chapter, to pay for flowers and supplies for cleaning veteran graves in their ongoing community projects.
April 24, 2024: The DAR ladies were at it again, adding soil and getting ready to plant flowers at the All-Veterans Memorial. They are getting it ready for Memorial Day. Money for materials were provided by the Brainerd VFW.
