Sussex County honors citizens who gave their lives in service to their country between 1917 and 1958 in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, and it also remembers its Vietnam War dead: Sp. 4 John Alvin Johnson of Jarratt, Sgt. Walter C. Velvet, Jr., of Waverly, FA Willie Grady Whitmore, Jr., of Wakefield, Major Lawrence R. Booth of Stony Creek, and Pvt. Larry M. Mason of Waverly.