Volunteers restore memorial honoring veterans buried in Hull Village Cemetery
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A MEMORABLE PROJECT: In 2007, Eagle Scout candidate Jeffrey Cameron created a memorial to deceased veterans buried in the Hull Village Cemetery. Earlier this year, Hull’s Randy Gould led an effort to restore the memorial board and update the list of names. The completed memorial was unveiled at the cemetery on August 14. [Photos courtesy of Jennifer Whelan]
The deceased veterans bulletin board at the Hull Village Cemetery was originally dedicated on Veterans Day, November 11, 2007, in honor of Hull veteran Edwin A. Cameron, who served in the Navy during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
His son Jeffrey, as a member of Boy Scouts Troop 20, completed his Eagle Scout community project by building a display for the names of Hull’s veterans buried in Hull Village Cemetery. Over several months on weekends, the Boy Scouts and community volunteers searched the cemetery for veterans’ graves. The Boy Scout troop had approached the select board for permission to do this project on town property.
Donations from Hull Glass and the workmanship of the late Mike Schaffer and Jeffrey Cameron built the deceased veterans memorial.
Fast forward to 2026, when Hull Village resident Randy Gould decided the memorial needed some tender loving care and that the names of veterans buried in the cemetery needed to be updated. With the blessing of the Cameron family, he sanded and stained the original wood memorial, on advice from JoAnn Cameron, moved the bulletin board to the center of its frame in order to use the back for additional space, replaced the sign, and along with Sheila Fleck from Daley and Wanzer, researched and updated the list of deceased veterans and the locations of their gravesites.
After several months, with donations from Daley and Wanzer and research by Miranda Ahlstedt from the Hull Department of Public Works, the restoration was finally completed.
It was unveiled on August 14 in the presence of the Cameron family.
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