While the actual wreath laying will provide some very beautiful moments, the delivery did, too.

The Wreaths Across America program is now in three Warren County communities – Warren, Sugar Grove and Tidioute.

The Blue Star Mothers of Kinzua partnered with St. Joseph’s Cemetery to bring the program to Warren for the first time this year.

“The truck carrying over 400 wreaths got a welcome that even the drivers weren’t really prepared for,” Skyla Govier, president of the chapter, said.

Photos provided to the Times Observer Approximately 400 wreaths will be laid at St. Joseph Cemetery on Saturday as part of the Wreaths Across America program brought to this cemetery by the Blue Star Mothers of Kinzua.

The effort has been a year in the marking for the Blue Star Mothers.

“We reached out to five cemeteries and St. Joseph’s Cemetery said yes,” Govier said. “We held a fundraiser, advertised on our Facebook page and put this in the church bulletin. We needed over 400 wreaths for this cemetery.”

Each wreath costs $17 so expectations were understandably muted. Govier said they didn’t expect to meet the goal.

“Boy were we wrong,” she said. “We actually raised 518 wreaths. The remainder of these wreaths will stay in the account for next year. We were blown away by your generosity.”

Monday’s delivery also blew them away.

“We just put one (Facebook) post about wanting to do an escort and, wow, this community did not disappoint,” Govier said. “The truck had five stops before coming to us.”

The Kane Fire Department and EmergyCare escorted the truck from Ludlow to the county line. From there, Sheffield and Clarendon picked up the escort.

Pennsylvania State Police, Tidioute VFD and some of the Blue Star Mothers joined in Sheffield.

“When we looked in our mirrors we couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” Govier said. “To see people on the side of the road waving flags was a great sight.

“We cried tears of happiness, tears of pride and tears of amazement.”

Wreaths were also delivered to Sugar Grove on Monday and Judy Fry pointed out that Kent Tryon Transfer donated his truck and time to make the trip and had a Gold Star father, Kent Jayne, riding with him to help.

“Mr. Jayne’s son, SP4 Ryan Jaybe was KIA Nov. 3, 2012 in Afghanistan,” Fry said, “and is honored by having his name and picture on the truck.”

A Navy veteran and Army veteran were in the cab of the truck that came to Warren.

A. Duie Pyle, a transportation firm, “donates everything to make this happen,” Govier said.

She wanted to thank the community “for all you did for the wreaths that represent so much.

“As a new project for Blue Star Mothers and St. Joseph’s, and Warren, it exceeded our expectations and the show of support was amazing,” she said.