VVA 862

Funeral Honors for all 73 Vietnam Veterans from Beaver County who Paid the Price..

Application for Pre-need Determination of Eligibility for Burial in VA National Cemetery

Please Note: This takes approximately 6 weeks for a response. Be sure to Check it out.

Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 862, our heroes, our brothers, whom have passed since we started this chapter in 2000

VVA 862 Chapter Memorial Stone

NATIONAL CEMETERY OF THE ALLEGHENIES
BRIDGEVILLE, PA

This is the closest National Military Cemetery to Beaver County located off Interstate 79 at the Allegheny / Washington County line.

Several of our VVA 862 Chapter members are already there.

Funeral Honors

For our Fallen VVA 862 Brothers & Sisters, our VVA 862 Honor Guard will provide members of our Honor Guard to  “Stand Guard” at the casket during visiting hours at the funeral home. 

We also provide a “White Rose Ceremony” for our VVA 862 members only! This also includes a “Final Roll Call” of which we have received many compliments. It’s very touching when we do it, but when it’s over, people say that was very moving. That’s a nice addition.

We will also provide the regular military services at the Church or Cemetery or Funeral Home, of your choice.

We must be notified ASAP  We work through the Funeral Home of the Deceased Veteran.

“The Funeral Home Must contact us first.”

Please have the Funeral Home contact one of our Honor Guard Commanders.

Bob Weismantle – Home – 724-869-4942 or Cell – 724-900-5628

Lee Corfield – Home – 724-775-3027 or Cell – 412-974-8586

Ray Litzinger – Home – 724-378-5855 or Cell – 412-974-9192

VVA 862 MIA – “STREET SIGN PROJECT”

For the past few years the members of the VVA 862 Honor Guard put together a “Street Sign Project” Committee which started out placing a Street Sign for our 4 MIA’s from Beaver County. We look at it as these Veterans never came home. This is a way of “Bringing them home. We give them the Final Military Rites they never received. We place street sign on the street where that veteran last lived when he entered the service. This takes a lot of research and a lot of time

Since they, VVA National, changed our name from VVA 862 Beaver County, to VVA 862 Southwestern, Pa, we decided to do the MIA’s from the surrounding counties. So far, we’ve placed street signs for the 4 from Beaver County, 2 in Washington County, 1 in Mercer County. Butler County is already done.

We have many MIA Veterans from Allegheny County which we will be starting on in the future. Due to the Covid-19, in 20202, we decided to stop all attempts on this project until we could start working on this again.

Update on Allegheny County MIA’s

Bob Weismantle & Lee Corfield attended the VVI (Vietnam Veterans Inc) in Pittsburgh on August 5th to explain how this project works. Bob had the floor for over 1/2 hour giving an explanation as to what all is involved with looking up these MIA’s. We were very well received. Bob now has a 4 man committee which will be working with us to get started as soon as possible. We may even be able to get one done this year so VVI Committee can see how this all comes together. Looking forward to getting this moving forward.