Townwide Memorial Service For Those Lost To COVID-19

Press release from Stratford Clergy Association:

May 19, 2021

The Stratford Clergy Association, in partnership with the Office of the Mayor, will host a Townwide Memorial Service for those lost to COVID-19, on Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 12:00 noon on the steps of the Stratford Town Hall, 2725 Main Street.

As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will allow our town an opportunity stop and remember the over 150 lives lost in Stratford over the course of the past eighteen months. This event will feature music from local artists and remarks from area clergy and Stratford Mayor, Laura Hoydick.

“After the trauma we have experienced this past year, we feel it is important for us to ritually mark this time and remember all that we have lost, as a way to honor those losses and as a way of moving forward into the future,” commented the Rev. Jeff Lukens, Pastor of the Lordship Community Church in Stratford.

This event is open to the public and will follow all CDC, state, and local safety recommendations.

This press release was produced by the Stratford Clergy Association. The views expressed here are the author’s own.