Veterans groups and municipalities have ceremonies planned in observance of Memorial Day.

Catasauqua area:

American Legion Post 215 members and Color Guard will also mark Memorial Day May 30 with services. The group will leave the Post, 330 Second St., and begin with a program, 10 a.m. at Fairview Cemetery, West Catasauqua.

A seamen’s memorial service will follow 10:15 a.m. on the Pine Street Bridge.

A 10:30 a.m. program will be held at the memorial plot in North Catasauqua, followed by St. Mary Cemetery 10:45 a.m.

The program will conclude with an 11 a.m. service at the Legion Post.

Coplay:

Coplay American Legion Post 426 will hold its annual Memorial Day services May 29, beginning noon at the war memorial at the Saengerbund, South Fifth Street.

Northampton area:

The Northampton Joint Veterans, consisting of the American Legion Post 353, Catholic War Veterans Post 454 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4714, will conduct a memorial tribute for fallen comrades 11 a.m. May 30 at the Veterans Plaza, 14th Street and Dewey Avenue.

VFW Post 4714 will begin the day with programs at cemeteries across the borough: 8:30 a.m., Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) Cemetery; 9 a.m., St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery; 9:30 a.m., Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery; 10 a.m., Our Lady of Hungary (OLH) Cemetery.

Each cemetery program will consist of the national anthem, a prayer, a song, roll call, a rifle salute, tabs and playing of both “Amazing Grace” and “America the Beautiful.”

The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will take part in programs spanning two days.

The May 29 schedule is as follows:

• 8:15 a.m., Fairview Cemetery, Cherryville Road, Northampton

• 9 a.m., St. Peter’s (Snyder’s) United Church of Christ, Seemsville (service and cemetery)

• 10:20 a.m., Emmanuel Church, Emanuelsville

• 11 a.m., Christ United Church of Christ, Little Moore, between Klecknersville and Rockville

• Noon, Horner’s Cemetery, Nor-Bath Boulevard, East Allen Township

• 2 p.m., Zion Stone United Church of Christ, Kreidersville (service and cemetery)

The May 30 schedule is as follows:

• 8 a.m., G.A.R. Memorial Plot, Lincoln and Dewey avenues, Northampton

• 8:45 a.m., Allen Union Cemetery, Fourth and Main streets, Northampton. Inclement weather will move this program to Grace United Church of Christ, Ninth Street and Lincoln Avenue, Northampton.

• 9:45 a.m., St. John’s United Church of Christ, Howertown (service and cemetery)

• 11 a.m., Siegfried Memorial Plot, West 21st Street, Northampton

The Captain Theodore Howell Camp No. 48 Sons of Union Veterans was organized in 1910 and is made up of men who are descendants of Union soldiers. Each Memorial Day since 1911, the group has visited 10 cemeteries in the Northampton area that hold the remains of the men who fought in the Civil War and other wars. Also participating in the program is the Tri Community Marching Band.

Each service will include a prayer, a recitation of the Gettysburg Address and a rifle salute, followed by the playing of taps and “Star Spangled Banner.”

Whitehall:

A program involving the township’s three veterans groups - American Legion Post 367, Fullerton; American Legion Jones Quigg Post 739, Hokendauqua; and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7293, Egypt - as well as the Whitehall Police Honor Guard will be held 11:30 a.m. May 30 at the municipal building, 3219 MacArthur Road.

Before and after that joint event, the organizations will hold separate ceremonies.

Fullerton American Legion Post services will take place 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. May 30 at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Mundy Lane.

VFW Post 7293 will begin 9:30 a.m. at the Cementon memorial, traveling to Egypt for a 10 a.m. service at the Doughboy statue and 10:30 a.m. at the park. Following the joint event at the municipal building, the group will conclude its program at the Post, 5209 Springmill Road. That event is planned to begin about 12:15 p.m.