DAR recognizes Steed, Crews for service

The Daughters of the American Revolution Sukey Hart Chapter of Warner Robins acknowledged two Houston County citizens on Dec. 14 at Houston Lake Country Club for their service and dedication in the community.

Honored were Jack Steed with the DAR Community Service Award and Micah Crews with the Historic Preservation Recognition Award for his leadership and dedication in helping conduct a massage cleanup of the Fredrick Cemetery in Warner Robins.

Steed, whose roots with the DAR date back to 1930s, said that being recognized by the DAR organization, is meaningful to him.

“It means a lot to me because I have always admired the Daughters of the American Revolution and the work that they do,” Steed said. “It’s one (award) I am really appreciative of and it’s a great organization. (Saturday’s event) was really nice, professionally done and I admired the recitations they had done.”

Kathy Hart, chairman of the Community Service Committee, Sukey Hart Chapter, National Society Daughters of the Americans Revolution (NSDAR), presented Steed with his award saying Steed is deserving.

“Jack is an extremely patriotic and caring individual,” Hart said. “He has been recognized by many groups and I am proud to present Jack with the coveted NSDAR Community Service Award.”

Over his lifetime, Steed has been involved heavily with the military, first enlisting in U.S. Air Force in 1949 and serving as a Air Traffic Controller, Personnel Superintendent and as a First Sergeant. In total, Steed gave 33 years of service. He has also been a part of the Rotary Club of Centerville, and currently remains active with the National Air Force Association, where he currently serves as a National Director, Emeritus.

Crews is a junior at Veterans High School and a member of the Royal Rangers, a church boys group similar to Boy Scouts. He was honored by his aunt Cynthia Davis for helping lead the cleanup of the Frederick Cemetery that took him and nine of his friends nine months to complete. They started in Oct. 2011 and completed the cleanup in June 2012.

“It’s a great recognition and I am grateful for it because I put in a lot of hard work,” Crews said. “It also makes me appreciate older historic values including cemeteries or monuments. I will be interested in doing another project similar to this.”

Davis said she learned that DAR supported the kind of project Crews did and compiled five pictures of what he had done. She also needed two letters of recommendation, which she got from a church administrator and ranger commander. In addition to being recognized by the DAR on Saturday, Crews was also honored by the Keep Warner Robins Beautiful Committee for his cleanup.

“The main thing is for a young person to realize that it’s still our duty to help keep up things that are from the past for the future,” Davis said. “For young people it’s hard to attach them to the past and they see cemeteries as something scary but it’s really a record of our past. We have still have to connect to the past because that is what moves us forward.”

DAR was established in 1890 and is located in Washington, D.C. They are non-profit, non-political volunteer organization women’s service dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history and securing America’s future through better education for children according to their website dar.org.

For more information on the DAR Sukey Hart Chapter of WR contact Mary Ann Gallaher at 478-396-7885 or visit sukeyhart.georgiastatedar.org.

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