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Zuber family honored in weekly flag program

The Summit Hill Lions Club is continuing its American flag program this week.

The program was resurrected earlier this year as a means of honoring and/or memorializing veterans from the community.For one-week periods, the club will fly the American flag at the Ludlow Park site to remember current and former town residents who gave service to our country.As the program continues this week, five members of the Zuber family - sons of the late Walter and Catherine (Porambo) Zuber - who served in the military are being honored and memorialized.Among those honored are:Stanley Zuber, who was the grand marshal of the 2010 Summit Hill Memorial Day Parade. He entered the Air Force in October 1953 and served 10 months at Keesler AFB, Miss., before going overseas to Germany and Austria, where he spent the remainder of his four-year hitch as a ground radio operator/cryptographer with the 604th Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron during the time of the Cold War.Walter Zuber of Freehold, N.J., a former paratrooper.Joseph Zuber of Summit Hill, a Korean War veteran.Frank Zuber of Reading, a lieutenant who entered the Army after a JROTC stint at Penn State.Memoralized is the late Mitchell Zuber, served in the Army during World War II.The siblings also have a brother, John Zuber of Summit Hill, a retired teacher, and Mary Adams and Natalie Mace, both of Perkasie.Town residents are invited to contact Lions Club members to have their family member or friend scheduled to be honored or memorialized. Joseph O'Gurek Jr., 645-5171, is in charge of the scheduling. Those making a request to have a veteran scheduled should provide that person's service record.The only stipulations to be scheduled are that the person being recognized is a current or former town resident and must have served in the Armed Services.