"GRAND GLAIZE" MEMORIAL CEREMONY, MAY 28, 2014 - Four Mile Mark - Lake of the Ozarks

The Memorial Wreath quietly rests on Lake of the Ozarks

Special Guests and Attendees prepare to depart

PLAYIN - HOOKY Water Taxi generously provided by
Captain Jim Bascue for a comfortable ride to the 4 MM for
Memorial Service

Guests enjoying beautiful trip to the 4 Mile Mark aboard
Playin Hooky

Special guest,  Sunrise Beach Fire & Police Department Chaplain
Steven Myers and his wife Julie.  Chaplain Myers offered our
Memorial Service closing Prayer

Captain Dave Anderson & USCG Auxilarist  Ernie Venis on TOWBOAT 4701
Standing by near the spot where the "Grand Glaize" capsized 60 years ago
with OSAGE BEACH FIREBOAT "MARINE 11"

The Missouri State Highway Patrol, Water Patrol Division
was represented by MSHP "TROOP F" Commander
Captain Gregory Kindle and "Troop F"  LT Clardy, Corporal Scott White
and Trooper Shannon Bledsoe 

Osage Beach "MARINE 11" Releases the wreath on the waters
at about 2:30 p.m., the approximate time of capsizing -

Captain Johnson, TowBoat 4704 maneuvers close to wreath for
Media photographers

THE SERVICE AND READING WAS CONDUCTED BY
CAPTAIN CHARLES MEYER WITH CLOSING
PRAYER BY CHAPLAIN STEVEN MYERS

THE MEMORIAL WREATH
drifts quietly on the spot not far from where tragedy struck
SIXTY YEARS AGO

As the service concludes - the wreath is carefully broken up and
the flowers are set adrift - -

PHOTO'S BY JULIE MYERS & LAURA MEYER

THE SERVICE CLOSED WITH THE FOLLOWING THOUGHT - - -

 Please remember as we depart here today - -

NOT FAR FROM THIS VERY PLACE - IN THE DARKNESS  - 100 FEET BELOW ARE THE REMAINS OF A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO TOOK A 15 MINUTE BOAT RIDE INTO ETERNITY AND A 22 YEAR OLD YOUNG MAN WHO WAS ENJOYING A FUN DAY ON THE WATER - - THEY ARE NOW FOREVER INTERRED IN THE DEPTHS BELOW - - (ALONG WITH OTHERS WE MAY NEVER KNOW)

PLEASE BOAT SMART AND BOAT SAFE - -

THANK - YOU