Cemetery
Sustainability 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 taxA project set to begin this fall for 554 pre-placed crypts at the Southern Maine Veterans’ Cemetery will also include 234 “green burial” graves that will be created. According to this article from the Journal Times, cemetery superintendent Scott Brown commented that, “It will be the first state (veterans) cemetery in the nation to have…
Read More about Maine veterans’ cemetery going greenLike most funeral directors, those of us at Funeral Director Daily believe it is our sacred duty to serve the military veterans of our country with honor and dignity. Because of that fact, we wanted to make sure that all funeral directors are aware that the National Cemetery Scheduling Office (NCSO) began the conversion to…
Read More about A reminder about the National Cemetery AdministrationLast month we brought you this story that pertained to the exhumation of a legendary bank robber who was at one time known as “Public Enemy #1”. We refer to the life and death of John Dillinger and his eventual burial at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. We told you last month that…
Read More about Dillinger may not be exhumed after allThree years ago the National Cemetery Administration (NCA) that administers the veteran cemeteries across our nation and care for the hallowed land where our military veterans rest, received a score of 96 in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (AMSI). Obviously, that is a very high level on the 1-100 ACSI scale. However, the NCA was…
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