Trumbull County: Memorial Affairs, Flags and the Veterans Memorial

Memorial Day flags and markers. Each year the Trumbull County Veterans Service Office coordinates with local veteran organizations, churches and municipalities to distribute thousands of flags and veteran grave markers across the county - more than 30,000 flags a year, placed through the county's 31 veteran organizations (13 VFW posts, 11 American Legion posts, 2 AMVETS, a DAV chapter, a Purple Heart chapter, a Vietnam Veterans of America chapter and 2 Army Navy garrisons). The organizations can also request reimbursement of funds for their Memorial Day efforts, which Revised Code 307.66 requires the county to pay up to $500 a year to each chartered post. The office plans the county's Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Pearl Harbor Day services, and in December 2023 the office, with a local honor guard, performed military rites for an indigent veteran. The memorial. The commission supervises and maintains the Trumbull County Veterans' Memorial on Veterans Memorial Way in Warren, whose brick and plaque records are published on the commission's site, and the office supplies grave flags and markers for any county veteran's grave (each cemetery sets its own placement rules). Indigent burial. Section 5901.25 has the commission bury or cremate a veteran, or a veteran's parent, spouse or surviving spouse, who died without means, with up to $1,000 from the county (see the Ohio entry). No page of the county or the commission describes its practice, so call 330-675-2585 before signing a funeral contract.