The traditional Summit Hill Memorial Day Parade, Carbon County’s largest tribute to servicemen and women, has been canceled.

The cancellation was announced this weekend by the committee headed by Thomas Vermillion.

The four-division lineup is normally held on Memorial Day, which is May 25 this year.

At the May meeting of the Summit Hill Borough Council, Kevin Steber, the community’s emergency management coordinator, recommended to council the parade not be held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Council did not authorize the parade at the time and Vermillion, the parade committee’s chairman, afterward said it was doubtful the parade would be held.

Commander W. Kevin O’Donnell of the David-Lawton-Yurko-Breslin-Bevich American Legion Post 316 announced the Legion has canceled memorial services that would have been held on Sunday, May 24, and Monday, May 25, in St. Joseph Cemetery, White Bear, and Ludlow Park, respectively.

The parade committee operates the parade while the Legion is in charge of the memorial service.

In advance of the parade and services, no grand marshal for 2020 was named, nor were speakers at the services announced.

But Post 316 Chaplain Gregory Miller said one of the most important parts of the services is memorializing veterans who passed away since last Memorial Day. Miller reads the Roll Call of the Deceased at the services.

The Legion asks the public to remember those who would have been on this year’s list. They include: John Kast, Leon Eckhart, Michael Melley, Joseph Hager, John Yellen, Alexander “Butchie” Kane, James “Butch” Ferrari, Howard Billig, Howard Morana and William Maynard.