Cemetery
The other day we came across this unusual article in the Voldosta Today News. The story revolves around the private mausoleum of the E.D. Rivers, Jr. family. E.D. (Eurith Dickinson) Rivers, Jr. was the 68th Governor of Georgia and served from 1937 to 1941. According to the above referenced article, he and his wife Mattie…
Read More about Whose casket is it?Yesterday was Veteran’s Day across the United States and we noticed a couple of funeral related items that we thought we would pass on to our readers. First of all, we noticed how Service Corporation International’ s Dignity Memorial location in Western Michigan received some really good attention on a television talk show about pre-planning…
Read More about From the Veterans Day fileRegardless what your personal views are on climate change, we found this article from the E & E News that explains that there have been a lot more cemeteries that have seen problems from rising water and what E & E determines is climate change in the last couple of years. The article starts off…
Read More about The dead rising?Leave it to a couple of iconic names in the business news world to connect the death care profession with Halloween. Although you should probably expect it, we came across a couple of articles today that link our livelihoods with the October 31 holiday. First, from Forbes. In this article you can read about “13…
Read More about Just in time for HalloweenSustainability and the ability to make more out of less has led the Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia, to explore options that would allow more graves in the cemetery. The cemetery has operated in the city since 1887 and was shut down to new grave lot purchases during the time period of 1986…
Read More about Vancouver cemetery considers three dimensional plotsIn the continuing saga of the possible exhumation of famed bank robber John Dillinger, a relative of Dillinger’s has been given the okay for an exhumation to occur on December 31. This comes after a legal fight in which the original exhumation date in September came and went without incident. You can see the latest…
Read More about Dillinger exhumation. . .the next chapterToday we decided that we would be light on the editorial topic and just present a couple of short news articles to our readers concerning issues in cemeteries across the country. The first article that we will furnish to our readers is here and concerns the Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a…
Read More about Cemetery life: Halloween movie cancelled, lawsuitThe Hawaiian Memorial Park opened in 1958, one year prior to Hawaii joining the country as the 50th State. The cemetery located out in Kaneohe on the eastern, or windward side of the island, was probably way out in the country and zoning issues were far from people’s minds. More land was bought in 1982…
Read More about Trouble. . . or maybe. . .compromise in ParadiseAccording to this article from the Washington Post, new rules are being proposed on who can be buried at Arlington National Cemetery because of space issues. In the article, Karen Durham-Aguilera, the cemetery’s executive director states, “Our reality is that we are running out of space. Without any changes in eligibility we will be full…
Read More about With space issues looming, Army proposes new rules for eligibility at ArlingtonThis is not the first time that we have discussed the issue of neglected, abandoned, or just plain financially failing cemeteries on this forum. However, this might be the first time where a county is to the point where they may bring the issue to the voters in order to create a dedicated funding stream…
Read More about How to pay for failing cemeteries? — This county thinks it can pass a property tax
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