"Sugarcreek's most famous son," at least according to this memorial, is Air Force General Donald L. Putt, who "worked to develop the world's first segmented solid rocket engine." The monument is a 55-inch tall granite replica, "one tenth the size of the actual boosters."
Donald Putt was a booster himself -- of the AVRO program, the U.S. military's top secret attempt to build its own flying saucer in Canada in the 1950s. That would have made a much more interesting subject for a monument, but the project flopped and it isn't mentioned at all here.
