Weekend service in Fulton honors Winston Churchill

FULTON, Mo. -- Relatives of Winston Churchill have marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Britain's World War II leader at the Missouri college where he delivered his historic "Iron Curtain" speech.

The Columbia Missourian reported that the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College organized a remembrance event Saturday. It included Churchill's granddaughter, Edwina Sandys, and his great-grandson, Duncan Sandys.

Churchill warned of the dangers of Soviet communism in a March 1946 speech at Westminster College.

The service at Westminster is among several around the world in 2015 to commemorate the life of Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He died Jan. 24, 1965.