BUTLER TWP - The Butler Veterans Affairs Medical Center honored its volunteers at an annual ceremony Wednesday.

Held at the Vagabonds Hall in Lyndora, the Volunteer Recognition Ceremony and Luncheon had 140 awards presented.

Jeremy Fleeger with the Veterans of Foreign Wars received a plaque for 7,500 hours of service.

Carl Castellani with the Disabled American Veterans and DAV deputy representative to a medical center committee received an award for 6, 250 hours of service.

Service pin awards were presented in the following categories:

5,000 hours - Patrick Cody, Thomas Kysor and Orville Wood

3,750 hours - Roy Hall, Raymond McIlwain, Catherine Minto and Eugene Wise

2,500 hours - Garnet Hutchison, John Pintirsch and Ginny Reichenbach

1,750 hours - Margaret Bachman, Thomas Bonatti, Arthur Greathead, Clarence Maley, Ervin Werner and Jack Wetzel

1,000 hours - Bette Abate, Allen Brasko, Eleanor . Confer, Austin Cousins, Elmer Doran, Albert Hagen Jr., Robert Harding, Eric Hulbert, Doris Reinhart, Norman Rettig, Emil Siovaila and Donna Whitford.Certificate of Hours and Years of Service Awards were presented to those providing 25,000 or more hours and 45 years, and to those providing 1,000 and one year of service.

25,000 plus hours - Abie Abraham

15,000 plus hours - Ermania Kelly

10,000 plus hours - Viletta Gardner and Walter Nock

7,500 plus hours - Isabel Baird, Edward Natali and Evelyn Ward

6,250 plus hours - Arthur Hollerman, Betty Hollerman, Earl Kelly and Clifford Musser

5,000 plus hours - Arthur Reichenbach and James Riemer

3,750 plus hours - Arthur Bishop Jr., Virginia Bishop, Hugh Burgess, Marlene Hollobaugh, Philip Shank, Betty Slaugenhaupt, Betty Stuckie and Gertrude Zima

2,500 plus hours - Clarence Altman, Helen Held, George O'Brien, William Stivason and Pearl Wilson

1,750 plus hours - James Brady, Ginger Braho, Gertrude Flick, Frances Forsythe, Floyd Green, Rhoda Montag and Judith Pintirsch

1,000 plus hours - Jack Affolder, James Bachman, James Blackburn, Marjorie Blackburn, Emilie Dixon, Thomas, Ginder, Glenn Greenawalt, Marjorie Leddon, Patricia Mysliwiec, Hazel Nichols, Robert Riddell, Charles Shoaff, Raymond Tarr, Garnet Van Dyke and William Van Dyke

750 hours - Phyllis Biertempfel, Rutherford Cozad, Richard Curry, Helen Daller, Richard Daller, Elmer Lagrelius, James McClure, Charlotte Sanders, Francis Schneider, David Walters and Martha Young

500 hours - David Brown, Patricia Craig, Herman Daniel Klein, Irma Messina, Terrance Petrarca, John Earl Smith, James Veder Sr. and Dale Wurm

300 hours - Helen Fisher, William Foley, Richard Gardner, Larry Jack, Russell Kuntz, Robert McQuistion, Richard Orsen, Larry Pifer, George Ralish, Donald Sherwin and Loyal Stewart

100 hours - Michael Bartley, Teresita Belk, Kenneth Blauser, John Brewster, Donald Covert, Jane Croll, Paul Green, Willie Hobbs, Gene Karmanocky, Genevieve Kovach, Harry Lovett, Robert Maranche, Robert McDonough, Robert Novelli, David Patton, Timothy Pletcher, David Rettig, Theodore Sankey, Ernest Simmons, Donald Snyder, Rita Snyder, Douglas Willmot and Suzanne WiseThe following youth awards were presented:

1,000 plus hours - Thomas Winkler

150 hours - Alex Jordan and Michael Wagner

100 hours - Joey Ludwik and Terri Schmitt

50 hours - Daniel Berardini, Shannon Kline, Anthony Rieder and Jessica Vinroe.