John B. Denton, NSDAR

05/26/2025

On this Memorial Day, we pause to honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Their courage will never be forgotten.

05/05/2025

Celtic Festival 2025 - in the books.
Is was an honor and a privilege to be asked back again this year! The weather was perfect and lots of great things to do! With great pride, Barbara McSpadden, Mary Smith, Amy Pegues, Kristine Wright, Leia Hatzenbihler, and Lynn Campbell volunteered at our booth to help promote our chapter and our work with Wreaths Across America at 5 local wise county cemeteries. We were also asked to judge the shortbread contest again this year. Thank you Mrs. Wright, Amy, Kristine Leia, and Mary to help with the judging. It was a fun day. If you’d like to help us honor a locally buried veteran at Aurora, Oaklawn, Paradise, Pleasant Grove l or Sweetwater Cemetery, please sponsor a wreath by going to our sponsorship page https://bit.ly/JBDwreaths

04/26/2025

Thank you Mrs Wise County for stopping at our table and your support!

04/26/2025

04/26/2025

Having fun at the Rotary Spring Festival. Come out and see us and help us support our locally buried veterans with Wreaths Across America!! 🇺🇸 thank you Amy Pegues, Amy Evans, Kristine Wright, Leia Hatzenbihler, Mary Smith, Lynn Campbell for helping with our vendor table

04/21/2025

On Saturday, April 19, 2025, the John B. Denton Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution proudly installed a new slate of officers for the 2025–2027 term. We were honored to have Kathy Hanlon graciously conduct the installation ceremony.
The newly installed officers are as follows: left to right
- Regent: Jennifer McSpadden
- Vice Regent (not pictured): Connie Brawley
- Chaplain: Joyce Ogle
- Treasurer: Jodi Scribner
- Secretary (not pictured): Dana Manoushagian
- Registrar: Kathy Nobles
- Historian: Olivia Black
- Librarian: Toni Crews

We are excited to begin this new chapter in service to God, Home, and Country, and look forward to continuing our mission with dedication and enthusiasm.

01/19/2025

Yesterday we retired wreaths at Oaklawn Cemetery. It was very cold but the sun was shining. A huge shout out to Kathy Silvey and her Hodar, Carl for doing the whole top section of the cemetery the day before and also a huge shout out to Olivia Black for going out to do another section because she couldn’t be with us on Saturday. And another shout out to all those that braved the cold to help us retire the wreaths, Wise Veterans Group and our DAR chapter had a great showing. More pictures to follow. Anyone that was there please post your pictures in the comments or send to me and I’ll edit the post to add your pictures. Wishing everyone a very blessed week🙏

01/15/2025

Paradise Cemetery wreaths have been retired. Thank you to everyone that helped today! If you weren’t able to help with wreath retirement today at Paradise, we would love to see you this Saturday at 2 for Oaklawn wreath retirement. 465 Cemetery Rd, Decatur, TX 76234
Reminder as well we have a Chaper meeting this Saturday at 10:00. Refreshments and visiting begins at 9:30
Have a blessed rest of your week and hope to see you Saturday.

01/12/2025

For anyone that is able to help, we will be doing our wreath retirement for the Paradise Cemetery on this Tuesday at 4:15. Wear boots in case it’s muddy. and and bring your gloves. Thank you in advance for anyone that can come and help.

01/01/2025

Warmest regards to everyone for a joyful and thriving New Year. May the forthcoming year be replete with robust health, happiness, and blessings for you and your families.

12/30/2024

12/29/2024

A big shout out to Coach Brooks and the Decatur high school basketball team for helping with wreath retirement for Pleasant Grove l!
Help us honor our veterans for next Christmas by sponsoring below.
www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/tx0855p
Every sponsorship between now and January 17, 2025 will be buy one and we get one free. Please sponsor if you’re able. We sponsor over 1300 veterans at 5 local cemeteries and is with help of our volunteers we are able to meet that number each year. We love our volunteers!