Former officers to be honored at dedication

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Missouri Army National Guard will honor two former officers with the dedication of the armory in Perryville in their names. A dedication ceremony will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, in which the armory will be named after Maj. Austin G. Harter and Capt. Homer J. Kiefer, company commanders of the unit while it was a rifle company in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. The armory will be called the Harter-Kiefer Armory. It now houses the 880th Engineer Haul Team of the 1140th Engineer Battalion. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. The armory is at 905 S. Kingshighway in Perryville.

-- From staff reports