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

Catasauqua area

American Legion Post 215 will mark Memorial Day with services May 27, starting with a program at Fairview Cemetery, West Catasauqua, followed by services on the Pine Street Bridge, the memorial plot in North Catasauqua and at St. Mary Cemetery. The program concludes at the Post, 330 Second St.

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 - is set for 11:30 a.m. May 27 at the municipal building, 3219 MacArthur Road.

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

VFW Post 7293 services will begin 9:30 a.m. at the Cementon memorial on Main Street. Participants will then travel to Egypt for a 10 a.m. service at the Doughboy statue at Park and South Church streets and 10:30 a.m. at the Egypt Park memorial at Hillcrest Lane and Curt Simmons Drive. 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 12:30 p.m.

Fullerton American Legion Post 367 will be holding events May 27 for Memorial Day.

Services start 9 a.m. at Sacred Heart Cemetery, 609 Windsor St. The group moves to the memorial across from the Post, 609 Fullerton Ave., for 9:30 a.m. before going to the Post 10 a.m. Post 367 services conclude with the joint veterans program 11:30 a.m. at the township municipal building, 3219 MacArthur Road.

Coplay

Stanley W. Reinhard Jr. American Legion Post 426 will hold its annual Memorial Day services May 26, beginning noon, at various sites in the borough.

Northampton area

Northampton Joint Veterans Association, consisting of 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 27 at the veterans plaza, 14th Street and Dewey Avenue.

The Sons of Veterans of the Civil War will hold a service of remembrance after the 9 a.m. service May 26 at Emmanuel’s Lutheran Church, 3175 Valley View Drive, Bath.

The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Capt. Theodore H. Howell Camp No. 48 will take part in programs spanning two days.

The May 26 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’s Lutheran Church, Emmanuelsville

• 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’s Stone United Church of Christ, Kreidersville (service and cemetery)

The May 27 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 would 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

Capt. 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.”