Sarah Bateman will serve as this year’s Grand Marshall of the Medway Memorial Day Parade.

Bateman has worked for MetroWest Veterans Services District, serving Medway, Hopkinton, Holliston and Ashland, for most of the last 10 years. She will serve as this year’s Grand Marshall of the Medway Memorial Day Parade. 

Bateman worked as Director of Worcester Veterans Services from 2016-2017, and then returned to the District as the Director. 

Recently, she accepted an appointment by Senate President Karen Spilka to serve on the HERO Act Veterans Quality of Life Committee for the state. 

Bateman served in the U.S. Air Force and military service runs in her family. Her father was a Marine, her grandfather was a doctor in the Army during WWII, her father-in-law was a helicopter repairman during the Korean War, and both her husband and brother-in-law had lifelong careers in the Army. 

Veterans Services was certainly a departure from her prior career path. What first led hr to this veterans work was when she was trying to help her father navigate health problems and his veterans’ benefits . 

Before working in the veterans’ services arena, Sarah earned her degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She worked primarily in the wireless communications field as an RF (radio frequency) engineer consultant designing a cellular system throughout South Carolina and Georgia. 

Born and raised in Belmont, MA, she attended some college before joining the U.S. Air Force. She studied electronics and RF communications at Biloxi AFB in Mississippi for almost a year before being stationed at Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami, FL. At age 10, she visited Miami with her grandparents, came home and told her mother she was moving to Miami. Needless to say, Sarah was quite happy to get her first choice assignment as Wideband troop near Miami. However, it wasn’t all beaches and sunshine. As part of the 726th Tactical Control Squadron, there were a lot of tent deployments throughout the southeastern U.S., many at Avon Park bombing range in central Florida. Not exactly South Beach, but she managed to have some fun watching the bombing runs at night. 

Bateman says her last 10 years serving veterans have been by far the most rewarding. She has met so many wonderful people in the District and can’t think of anything better than helping veterans and their families navigate federal, state and local veterans’ benefits with the highest level of customer service. 

Submitted by Medway Memorial Committee

Medway Memorial Day Parade begins at 10:30 a.m. on May 26

The Medway Memorial Parade will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m., on May 26, 2025, leaving from the Medway VFW on Holliston Street to Matondi Square in the village.

Participants will include the Medway High School Band and the Worcester Kiltie Band, the Medway Fire Department and Police Department, local clergy, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Medway Lions, other civic groups, and service members of  the U.S. military.

A contingent of Naval Sea Bees of the Naval Mobile  Construction Battalion 27 will also be participants.

Floats and vehicles will be available for U.S. veterans to ride, as they choose. Veterans and active service personnel are encouraged to attend and participate.

Ceremonies will occur at Matondi Square. In case of inclement weather, ceremonies will be held in the Medway Village Church.

All participants are urged to arrive at the VFW at 9 a.m. on the 26th.