Services have been announced for Comrade Dennis Espinoza.
Celebration of Life: Saturday, March 8th, at 3 p.m. located at the VFW Post 9211, 255 Historic Lane, Reno, Nevada.
Funeral: Sunday, March 9th, at 1 p.m. at the Northern Nevada Veterans Cemetery, 14 Veterans Way, Fernley, Nevada.
In lieu of flowers please send donations to VFW Post 3396, P.O. Box 3659, Sparks, Nevada 89432. Make checks to VFW Post 3396, in not section write “Memorial for Espinoza”
Ladies,
With regret and heavy heart I have to announce the passing of Dennis Espinoza the evening of Sunday, February 9, 2014.
Dennis was the Commander of VFW Department of Nevada, District 3, to which the Fernley VFW Post is assigned, and has very active in assisting our Post, and especially me, meet our core goals in becoming an All-State Post by the end of the year.
Regretfully,
Douglas Stout
Commander
VFW Post 10247
The VFW Post 10247 and Ladies Auxiliary of Fernley, NV is pleased to announce that Kacie Meisner, a 6th Grade student at Fernley Intermediate School, is the Post’s First-place winner of the VFW 2013 – 2014 Patriot’s Pen essay contest. Kacie wrote her winning essay based on this year’s theme, “What Patriotism Means to Me”. The Post commander also announced the Second and Third Place winner in the essay contest, Lars Dars and Hazin Bennett respectively, also 6th graders at the Fernley Intermediate School.
Left to Right: Front Row: Lars Dars – 2nd place, Hazin Bennett – 3rd Place, Kacie Meisner – 1st Place. Back Row: Douglas Stout – Post Commander VFW #10247, Cathy Wardell – Ladies Aux. #10247 representative.
Sixty-eight students participated in the local competition this year. The essays of the three winners have been forwarded to the District level. If successful at the District and Department Levels, one of these students could be one of the 54 finalists world-wide: one from each of the 51 VFW Departments and one from each of the three overseas VFW Departments (Pacific Areas, Latin America/Caribbean and Europe), to compete at the National level for individual awards, ranging from $500 to $5,000.
The youth essay writing contest is a worldwide competition that gives students in grades 6, 7, and 8 the opportunity to write a 300-400 word theme-based essay expressing their views on democracy.
Douglas Stout, Commander, VFW Post 10247
The Wreaths Across America program is being organized in our area for the Northern Nevada Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nevada.
http://www.supportnnvc.org/wreaths
If you wish to have a wreath placed, fill out the form on the linked page and mail in. You are able to place orders through the NNVC for other cemeteries, they need the name of the person, and the cemetery I.D. number where they are interred.
The deadline for the wreath orders is December 7th, 2013. There will be NNVC members of the and volunteers in and around Fallon and Fernley areas in the next few weeks taking order for wreaths.
If you have any questions, please follow the link above.
Thank you for your continued support of our Veterans.
Fernley VFW Ladies Auxiliary 
