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THE ONE FULLY DATED INSTANCE IN THE RECORD REACHED
On Memorial Day 1965 the town's parade assembled at the school and marched to the cemetery on Road 4, under both living posts together. The carrier is The Independent-News of Walkerton, 27 May 1965, under the headline "Towns Plan Memorial Day Services," printing this town's and Walkerton's plans in parallel columns — read here with the paper's OCR interleaving flagged wherever a line's town cannot be settled, and nothing carried across the columns: Walkerton's Woodlawn ceremony is Walkerton's, and no part of it stands in this section. North Liberty's plan, as the item prints it: the parade assembles at 10:30 AM on the school grounds and starts at 11:00 promptly, going from the school to the cemetery on Road 4 (State Road 4, the road of the town cemetery complex — the item does not name the cemetery, and none is asserted); the Reverend Miller gives the address; the observance is sponsored jointly by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. The parade's listed order runs: Legion Color Guard; Legion Firing Squad; Legion Auxiliary Unit; Legion Auxiliary Float. The cemetery ceremony, per the item, "will be conducted by the Legion"; a fragment in the interleaved text naming a Legion Chaplain and a Rev. Eder cannot be assigned between the two towns' columns on the OCR as reached, and it prints here as an unsettled fragment, not a fact of either town — its settler is the printed page itself, read in page image. The institutional course the instance proves: fifty-two years after the GAR post dissolved, the observance had passed whole to the Legion–VFW generation, jointly held, in the GAR's own form — parade to the cemetery, an address, graveside ceremony.
The Independent-News (Walkerton), 27 May 1965 (Hoosier State Chronicles), OCR interleaving flagged as stated.