A grand time in Waynesburg
Courtesy of Angel Baker
Linda Hagyari, who served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam and became the first post commander in Greene County when she was elected commander of American Legion Post 954 in 2021, rides through Waynesburg on Nov. 4 during the annual Greene County Veterans Day Parade. Hagyari was escorted by her husband, Larry Hagyari.
Julie Plasko, a 102-year-old World War II Navy veteran, poses with her grandsons-in-law Master Sgt. Robert Stalter, U.S. Air Force, and Technical Sgt. Christopher Edge, U.S. Air Force, outside the Waynesburg courthouse Nov. 4. Plasko served as co-grand marshal of the annual Greene County Veterans Day Parade.
Courtesy of Cindy Plasko Levo
Linda Hagyari, who served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam, and Julie Plasko, a World War II Navy veteran, served as co-grand marshals during Waynesburg’s annual Veterans Day Parade Nov. 4.
Courtesy of Cindy Plasko Levo
Julie Plasko enjoys cruising along the parade route in Waynesburg in a 1955 Ford Sunliner owned and driven by Don Zinn of Point Marion Nov. 4, during the annual Veterans Day Parade. Plasko served as the parade’s co-grand marshal, along with Vietnam veteran Linda Hagyari.
The two women who served as grand marshals in Waynesburg’s Veterans Day Parade Nov. 4 aren’t just any female veterans.
Linda Hagyari, a Vietnam War Army veteran who served two years at Fort Meyers, Va., working the switchboards and handling classified information, was in 2021 elected the first female post commander of American Legion Post 954 in Jefferson, Pa. Her co-marshal, Julia “Julie” Plasko, is a Nemacolin native who served as a Specialist X in the U.S. Navy during World War II and earned the WWII Victory Ribbon and the American Campaign Ribbon.
Hagyari’s parade chauffeur was her husband Larry Hagyari. Plasko, who celebrates her 103rd birthday on Nov. 22, was driven by Don Zinn.