"is in remembrance of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe someone who is honoring a person or event, usually by actions. This can be used in present or past tense. Example: The flag was raised to half mast in remembrance of the fallen soldiers.
Many small stones are in remembrance of infants or children who died at an early age, often three or four in the same family; there are also names of young men or old captains lost at sea.
The event will also be in remembrance of Tony Benn, the politician and campaigner who died several days after Mr Crow.
Tonight, every note I sing will be in remembrance of the lives taken in Orlando.
The family's dinner was in remembrance of Robert Kardashian, who passed away nine years ago from cancer.
Originally, this was supposed to be in remembrance of the unfortunate Lutherans who were persecuted during the 16th and 17th century's wars of religion.
As Auschwitz is preserved in remembrance of the death camps, so is it a monument to intolerance and racism but like wartime heroes, the islanders hold the promise of a brave new world.
Indeed, federal legislation passed last year to attempt to address the issue, the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act, is named in remembrance of a 2-year-old boy who was accidentally backed over and killed by his father on Long Island.
In Denmark holiday traditions include singing "Vi elsker vort land" ("We Love Our Land") and building a bonfire where a symbolic straw witch is sacrificed in remembrance of church-sanctioned witch burnings in the 16th and 17th centuries.
This paper is written in remembrance of Professor Dr. F. R. Erskine Crossley, Architect and Founding Member of the International Federation for Promotion of Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (IFToMM) and its first Vice President who passed away on 4th February 2017.
The street fair in Metuchen was just one of several that Mr. Forrester attended today, while Mr. Lautenberg spoke at a rally of postal workers who were meeting in remembrance of their colleagues who were killed by the anthrax attacks last year.
