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Highway to be dedicated in honor of 2 local soldiers

By Greg Bebermeyer

11/12/2021

(KMZA)--A five-mile stretch of highway in Marshall County between Blue Rapids and Waterville will be dedicated in honor of two Waterville soldiers killed during the Vietnam War.

The Highway—which at that point is both U.S. 77 and K-9---will be dedicated during a ceremony Saturday morning as the Corporal Allen Oatney and Specialist 4 Gene Myers Memorial Highway.

The ceremony will take place at 10:30 at the Waterville Community Center, and a replica sign will be unveiled.

At 11:15, a vehicle procession will go from the Waterville Community Center to the Blue Rapids Community Center, where a lunch will be served at 11:30. A free-will donation will be taken, but veterans can eat free.

Oatney and Myers were killed by hostile fire during the Vietnam War. Myers was killed in June 1969 and Oatney in June 1970.

A bill naming the stretch of highway in honor of the two soldiers was signed into law by Governor Kelly in April of this year.

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