Rochester held its Memorial Day ceremony on Sunday. The annual event featured a reading of the names of fallen soldiers, boy scouts and girl scouts, the Rochester Memorial School’s fifth and sixth grade band and the town’s oldest living veteran.

The ceremony began in front of Town Hall at noon with an opening prayer from Rev. Robert Ripley from Rochester’s First Congressional Church.

After the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner, there was a short parade to Daggett Square where the names of the fallen veterans from Rochester were read from the Honor Roll memorial.

The parade then returned to Town Hall to the Civil War memorial to read the rest of the names. After honoring those fallen veterans Selectman Naida Parker introduced Hormidas Boucher, Rochester’s oldest living veteran. Boucher, 97, fought with the United States Navy in World War II.

Parker then invited any other veterans in the audience to join her at the front to be honored.

"We don't have a Veteran's Day ceremony here, so we want to make sure that all the living veterans in town can be honored on Memorial Day too," she said.