Celebration Service is Set to Remember Chuck Yeager

A public celebration has been scheduled for the late Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager. The ceremony is set for noon on Jan. 15 at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center, and the city of Charleston said Yeager’s wife, Victoria Yeager, is scheduled to attend. Chuck Yeager died last month at age 97. The West Virginia native in 1947 became the first person to fly faster than sound. The ceremony will be open to the public and livestreamed.