VFW Post 2113 History  

The De Pere VFW Post 2113 was founded on December 7, 1935 when 64 De Pere area World War 1 (WWI - the Great War) veterans got together and collectively decided to band together to provide everlasting support to all veterans, their families and the community we live in.

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Since that time De Pere VFW Post 2113 has held to those starting values. The Post's Honor Guard provides approximately 100 military funeral honors for deceased veterans of all branches of service each year, has led the Kiwanis Club of De Pere's Memorial Day Parade (the largest parade on Wisconsin) for the past 35 years, has been honored to present the flag colors at every West De Pere Phantoms and De Pere Redbirds varsity football home games, and many, many other local community events.

The Post has also donated thousands of dollars annually to many veterans and community fundraising events. The Post takes great pride in supporting our adopted U.S. Army Reserve unit that is based in Green Bay – the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion (CAB) and their Soldier and Family Readiness Group (SFRG) through joint events, creating and mailing care packages with their soldiers are deployed and providing educational opportunities for the soldiers and their families through an established scholarship at the local Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.

Highlighting three of our former members who truly lived these values:

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Leo Frigo

Korean War Vet (July 3, 1931 - February 13, 2001)

Leo was active in many community volunteer activities and in 1984 Leo founded Paul's Pantry. Today Paul's Pantry serves over 5 million pounds of food annually to local community members in need.  This outstanding effort is being accomplished by hundreds of volunteers who spend over 67,000 total annual hours working at Paul's Pantry and/or collecting food from area donations. Because of those efforts, on June 1, 2002 the State of Wisconsin and Brown County overwhelmingly voted to re-name the I-43 Tower bridge over the Fox River as the "Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge." Leo was a Korean War survivor - veteran.
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Don Christian

Korean War Vet (September 20, 1932 - August 10, 2020)

Don was a very active community volunteer. Volunteering as a West De Pere High School football game "chain gang" member and volunteer assistant football team film study coach for over a combined 50 years.  Don is the only community volunteer the West De Pere High School has honored with a plaque dedicated to his volunteer service that is displayed at every home football game. Don was a Korean War survivor – veteran.
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Harold ("Butch") Zelten

Korean War Vet (92 years old in 2023)

Butch is another Post 2113 member who work endless hours volunteering to support veterans, their families and the De Pere community as a whole. Butch is the founder of the Post 2113 Honor Guard – Butch set the legacy standard for excellence which continues today. In 2023 the VFW Department of Wisconsin named the Post Honor Guard the Wisconsin Honor Guard of the Year. Plus the Honor Guard was also recognized by VFW national headquarters in 2023 with the coveted Outstanding Community Service Award (2022-2023).
For his life-long volunteer efforts Butch received two of the highest honors the City of De Pere and Brown County can bestow - on October 25, 2005 Butch received the St. Norbert College Civis Princeps Silver Knight Award and on April 14, 2009 Butch received the Associated Bank Heart of Gold Lifetime Achievement Award. Butch is a Korean War survivor - veteran.
  • CONTACT
  • VFW: Pat Moran 920.639.0922
  • Aux: Linda Moran 920.639.9987
Mailing Address
    VFW Post 2113 & Auxiliary
    P.O. Box 5604
    De Pere, WI 54115-5604
Meeting Location

    De Pere Community Center

    600 Grant St, De Pere,WI

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