Post 42 Grand Canyon, Arizona
Post 42
Grand Canyon, Arizona
About This Post
Post Namesake
John Ivens
Notable Members
Emery Kolb, John Robert Fix (Attended the Paris Caucus in 1919)
What Makes this Post Unique
Post 42 maintains a cemetery inside a National Park. The cemetery was dedicated in 1928 and at that time the Park Service and The American Legion Post 42 were made partners maintain it. We were the first post in Arizona ... READ MORE
Photos
Flag Folding demonstration for Kiabab Learning Center
Joint Flag Retirement Ceremony
Centennial Coin
Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery
Ceremonies and Parades
American Legion Post 42 Hut, 1953
Pearl Harbour Remberance, December 7, 2013
Williams Veterans Memorial Dedication
American Legion Christmas Program for school children
Auxiliary Jr. and SAL Projects
John Ivens
John Ivens and Post 42 Charter
HISTORY
1920
John Ivens Post 42 organized into the American Legion
Jan 19, 1923
Charter members of John Ivens Post 42 were initiated into The American Legion, Department of Arizona, with the assistance of the Officers from the Frank Perkins Post of The American Legion in Winslow, Arizona.
Charter members of John Ivens Post 42 were initiated into The American Legion, Department of Arizona, with the assistance of the Officers from the Frank Perkins Post of The American Legion in Winslow, Arizona.
Post 42 member drowns in the Colorado River
Feb 20, 1929
From the "Park Service Bulletin" of February 28, 1929: Friends of the National Park Service and of Grand Canyon National Park will be shocked and grieved to learn of the untimely death by drowning of Glen E. Sturdevant, Park Naturalist, and Fred Johnson, Park Ranger. This irretrievable loss occurred on the morning of 20 February, 1929 when, in company with Chief Ranger James P. Brooks, Sturdevant and Johnson were returning from a ten day trip..
From the "Park Service Bulletin" of February 28, 1929: Friends of the National Park Service and of Grand Canyon National Park will be shocked and grieved to learn of the untimely death by drowning of Glen E. Sturdevant, Park Naturalist, and Fred Johnson, Park Ranger. This irretrievable loss occurred on the morning of 20 February, 1929 when, in company with Chief Ranger James P. Brooks, Sturdevant and Johnson were returning from a ten day trip..
