Communities across Southwest Florida are preparing to honor fallen service members with Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday.<\/p>\n
Bonita Springs<\/p>\n
A service will begin at 9 a.m. on the lawn of the Lilies Hotel at 27300 Old 41 Road.<\/p>\n
Raymond Sandelli, a retired lieutenant and naval aviator with the U.S. Navy and former Lee County commissioner, will serve as the guest speaker.<\/p>\n
Fort Myers<\/p>\n
The city of Fort Myers will host its ceremony at 9:30 a.m. at Memorial Gardens Funeral Home & Cemetery, located at 1589 Colonial Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The event will include a flyover, a presentation of colors from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and a keynote address from Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson. A wreath recognition will also be part of the service.<\/p>\n
Cape Coral<\/p>\n
Cape Coral’s ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Field of Honor at Coral Ridge Funeral Home & Cemetery, 950 Chiquita Boulevard South.<\/p>\n
Guest speakers will address attendees, and water and shaded seating will be provided.<\/p>\n
Punta Gorda<\/p>\n
Punta Gorda will hold its ceremony from 11:30 a.m. to noon at the Military Heritage Museum, 900 West Marion Avenue, Building B.<\/p>\n
Philip J. Schofield, Sr., a corporal in the United States Marine Corps, will speak at the event. The Color Guard-Marine Corps League, Detachment 756 Charlotte County, will present colors, and a short video will be shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities across Southwest Florida are preparing to honor fallen service members with Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday. Bonita…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,14484,1521],"class_list":["post-282694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-punta-gorda","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}