Cemetery
People in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin came together Saturday to celebrate the re-opening of the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel. You can read and see some photos of the project from this article in the Janesville Gazette Extra. What is extraordinary to me about this effort is that the cemetery fit the pattern of what…
Read MoreI came across an article today in the Minneapolis StarTribune that carried a Washington Post byline. You can read the article here and it pertains to an agreement that was reached between the National Park Service and the Missing in America Project. The Missing in America Project says that their purpose is to identify and…
Read MoreThe Seneca County Board of Supervisors recently heard a proposal from Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery general manager William Yale about the possibility of adding a crematory to increase revenue to the cemetery in the future. You can read about this proposal in the article here from the Olean Times Herald. According to the article this…
Read MoreIn an article that you can read here the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Catholic Cemetery group is in the process of preparing to offer natural, or green burials, as an option as early as this fall. The group has announced that it is readying a portion of one of its cemeteries, Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota…
Read MoreI found a couple of items in the news about issues at cemeteries or proposed cemeteries and either one is worthy of editorial space, but since they were both in the news at the same time and it is the Friday issue of Funeral Director Daily, I am presenting them both to you to read…
Read MoreTwo years ago the Massachusetts Cape Cod community of Harwich approved the transfer of land to the cemetery commission to build a pet cemetery for the community. Roads and paths are being put in, landscaping has been done and the project even won an innovation award from the Massachusetts Municipal Association. Now, according to this…
Read MoreIf you have read Funeral Director Daily for any length of time you will know – that while I did not have the privilege to serve in the United States Armed Forces – I truly admire and have always enjoyed serving those that did. I still get goosebumps, even after thirty-five years of being a…
Read MoreI recently came across an article in the Romulus, Michigan News Herald which you can read here. The article was, in general, about two men — Charles Cawetzka and Greg Farino. Farino is a retired U.S. Army Master Sargent and Cawetzka is a deceased U.S. Army veteran who served in the Philippine-American War in 1900. …
Read MoreIn an article that you can read here, Minneapolis’ famed Lakewood Cemetery announced that they will kick off a three-event concert series on April 8, 2018, with a performance by Anonymous Choir. The article states that the series, “Music in the Chapel” will feature acts that you would typically see in rock venues. Currently three…
Read MoreI recently read an article in GoSanAngelo.com that you can read here that dealt with the City of San Angelo and its future plans for the Fairmount City Cemetery. A couple of years ago a master plan was funded and that plan has indicated that the cemetery should capitalize on Fairmount’s assets and make the…
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