Jack Black, the oldest boy in a family of eight children born to Harry and Marjorie Black, died in 2009 while the youngest son, Keith, known as Butch, died earlier this year.

The service will take place at 1 p.m. with at the cemetery and will include an honorary 21 gun salute as both Jack in Korea, and Butch in Vietnam, served in the Armed Forces.

But there’s so much more to the story than that.

Sue Lyon and her sister Karen Lupenski have been coordinating Saturday’s event aimed at celebrating the lives of their brothers.

Photo provided to the Times Observer A photograph from the Nov. 29, 1967, Warren Times Mirror with the following caption: "SP4 Keith Black of 368 River Road, Warrens, will receive seven packages from his family and friends this Christmas in Vietnam. His prize package, 17-month-old Lorrie Ann Black, who holds her daddy's picture, will be awaiting his return home. Keith is serving as reconnaissance scout with the 52nd Inf. Div., having arrived in Vietnam Oct. 23. He was originally stationed in Da Nang area but has since moved some 40 miles north near the seacoast. The packages were sent by June Black, Mrs. Harry Black, Helen Caldwell, Karen Sue Black and Joyce Wholers.

Sue said their family lived along US 6 in Starbrick — Sue and Karen still live in the immediate area. She described it as “almost like two families” as Jack, Clyde, Kenny and Joyce were much older than Bob, Karen, Butch and herself.

Jack served in the Korean War and moved to Kansas after his time in the service before ultimately returning to this area.

“He was quite the Romeo,” Sue joked.

She was much closer — both in relation and age — to Butch.

All three of her brothers worked for Mastersons transport company.

Butch did until he and his wife moved to Oklahoma from Starbrick in 1988. She said they went for missionary training but ultimately he went back to driving truck.

He served during the Vietnam War.

“He lost his foot over there,” Sue said.

Did he ever talk about what he experiences?

“Never, not to us,” Sue said, noting she asked one time if he had killed anyone and he didn’t respond. “He didn’t talk about it a lot.”

She said Butch was a radioman who stepped on a landmine.

The family first received notice that Butch was missing in action.

“My mother just flipped out,” she said, explaining it was several days before the phone rang and she answered it before immediately handing it to her father. That call was notification that Butch had been taken to Japan.

When he returned state-side, he went to Walter Reed for treatment and “(we) all went down to see him,” Sue said.

“(I) was very close to him,” Sue said. “In fact, I introduced him and his wife. (We) went to school together and I introduced him.”

She said that this December would have marked their 53rd year of marriage.

Sue said Jack died in Corry in 2009, was cremated and had a traditional funeral. But in the last several years Jack’s wife gave Sue his ashes.

“I wanted them around,” she said. “We wanted something.”

And Westview Cemetery is the logical place for those ashes to be buried as there are many family members buried at the cemetery off of Weiler Rd.

Butch lost a newborn daughter in 1969 who is buried there.

So, last week, Jack’s ashes were buried at the cemetery.

Butch donated his body to science so the sisters buried, among other things, his prosthetic leg, some ball caps and some other personal belongings in the grave next to his daughter.

Following Saturday’s memorial service, a luncheon will be held where masks will be required, Sue said.