Cemetery
In the 1970s the Heavenly Acres Pet Cemetery in Livingston County, Michigan, began selling burial lots, monuments, and markers, as well as interring deceased pets for clients. Along with these charges, the cemetery collected fees for what was purposed to be perpetual care of the cemeteries. The cemetery has had some ups and downs since…
Read More about Trouble in Michigan Pet CemeteryOver the past couple of years we have written about cemeteries that get very little attention, are losing money, and are looking for someone to take them over. Many times, they have passed simply by default to the government entity where the cemetery is located. Over the weekend we read an article that you can…
Read More about Toronto Cemeteries returned to ResidentsOne of my favorite days of December as we move into the Holiday Season is a day that I am proud to say that I am an American and a way that we all can have the chance to honor America and her hero dead. It is Wreaths Across America day at National Cemeteries and…
Read More about Tomorrow is Wreaths Across America DayYesterday we opined with an article that mentioned some of the problems that rural cemeteries had in finding the funds to continue to operate in light of the reduction in demand for earth burials and cemetery space. Since it is Friday we thought we would end the week by bringing you this video and print…
Read More about A rural cemetery issue we are glad we don’t all haveOne of the issues that I have seen growing bigger and bigger in just the last couple of years is how association owned cemeteries can continue to make budgets in the wake of the direct cremation with no burial environment. It seems to me that more and more articles are popping up from all over…
Read More about Big issues with CemeteriesThis article and news story tells us that last week volunteers placed 8000 wreaths on the graves of deceased veterans at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen, Texas. We post it as just a great reminder to honor our veterans as we move into this holiday season. Related: This story informs us about…
Read More about Remembering our Veterans for the HolidaysGoing into the weekend I”m looking forward to watching some football, although my Minnesota Vikings have the week off. . . .I’ve also got a busy night planned going to Gopher Women’s Basketball and our top ranked Women’s Volleyball games tonight. In the meantime, here are a couple of stories that we saw this morning…
Read More about The End of the Week. . .So, we are exactly one week from Halloween. I noticed this article from Boston.com that you can read here about the Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts receiving thousands of visitors and had to find out why. Turns out that the Charter Street Cemetery was formerly known as The Old Burying Point Cemetery and is…
Read More about Cemetery receives up to 50,000 VisitorsI read this article from the Fort Wayne, Indiana Journal Gazette the other day. It deals with the proposition of the Divine Mercy Funeral Home, a funeral home owned and operated by the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, that is having a day where those people who bring in cremated remains will be given a…
Read More about Funeral Home/Cemetery combo offers free NichesMcCain Headstone Placed — It recently came to my attention that the headstone for U.S. Senator John McCain was placed last week. You can read an article and see photos of the grave site here. The headstone and grave are located in the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis,Maryland. I don’t know the particulars of…
Read More about Cemetery News. . . McCain, Coors
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