The Grand Marshal is usually someone who has put Owensboro on the national map in a positive way or someone that has been a huge community leader and supporter. \u00a0 Sometimes, we’re fortunate to attract a national celebrity.<\/p>\n
Past Grand Marshals for the Owensboro-Daviess County Christmas Parade include:<\/p>\n
2024 – Brian Smith and Scott Howard<\/strong>, The Great Race Participants<\/p>\n 2023 – Heath and Molly Eric<\/strong>, The Eric Group\n<\/p>\n 2022 – Claud Porter<\/strong>, Daviess County Attorney<\/p>\n 2019 – Our Local World War II Veterans<\/strong><\/p>\n 2018 – Katie Bouchard<\/strong>, Miss Kentucky 2018<\/p>\n 2017 – Kevin Olusola<\/strong>, 3x Grammy Award winning musician<\/p>\n 2016 – Houston Hogg<\/strong>, Foster parent and former UK football player<\/p>\n 2015 – Florence Henderson<\/strong>, Television icon and Owensboro native<\/p>\n 2014 – Diane Earle<\/strong>, local pianist and professor of music at Kentucky Wesleyan College<\/p>\n 2013 – Jenny Beth Willis<\/strong>, local singer<\/p>\n 2012 – The family of Joe Lowe,<\/strong> local radio personality, Monster Jam announcer<\/p>\n 2011 – Wendell H. Ford, <\/strong>Former Governor of Kentucky and United States Senator<\/p>\n 2010 – The five college university and college presidents and directors:<\/strong> Dr. Pamela Moon with Daymar College; Reverand Larry Hostetter with Brescia University; Dr. Cheryl D. King with Kentucky Wesleyan Collage: Jim Klauber with Owensboro Community and Technical College; and Gerald E. Tice with Western Kentucky University Owensboro Campus<\/p>\n 2009 – Owensboro Sister Cities \/ Regions Board of Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n 2008 – Keith Lawrence<\/strong>, Columnist with the Messenger-Inquirer<\/p>\n 2007 – Martha Clark & Mary Ann Smith Edge<\/strong>, Founders of Owensboro Impact 100 Chapter<\/p>\n 2006 – Zev Buffman<\/strong> – President \/ CEO RiverPark Center<\/p>\n 2005 – Kirk Kirpatrick<\/strong> – President of Wax Works-Video Works, Community Volunteer, Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Master of Ceremonies<\/p>\n 2004 – James & Julie White<\/strong> – Founders of Music at Maple Mount and music educators<\/p>\n 2003 – Beverly “Goldie” Payne<\/strong>, Owner of Goldie’s Best Little Opry House in Kentucky<\/p>\n 2002 – Joel Utley, coach Ray Harper & Kentucky Wesleyan College Men’s Basketball Team<\/strong><\/p>\n 2001 – Darrell Waltrip<\/strong>, Owensboro native and NASCAR legend<\/p>\n 2000 – Brad Wilkerson<\/strong>, Apollo High School Baseball Standout, Olympic Gold Medalist in Baseball<\/p>\n 1999 – Elmo <\/strong>of Sesame Street fame<\/p>\n 1998 – Alma Randolph<\/strong>, gospel singer & Founder of Alma Randolf Charitable Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Grand Marshal is usually someone who has put Owensboro on the national map in a positive way or someone that has been a huge community leader and supporter. \u00a0 Sometimes, we’re fortunate to attract a national celebrity. Past Grand Marshals for the Owensboro-Daviess County Christmas Parade include: 2024 – Brian Smith and Scott Howard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/2461"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christmasparade.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}