I 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 about.

The first article comes to us from Hawaii News Now and can be read here.  It pertains to the Hawaii legislature appropriating an additional $163,425 to the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery for staffing so that families can have wait times for interments eliminated.  The article reports on one incident when a state resident had to wait a month and a half to bury his grandmother.

The second article comes to us from the Seattle Times and you can read it here.  It is an Associated Press byline article out of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and is a report that the Department of Justice is investigating claims that a Virginia county blocked a proposed Islamic cemetery after a Muslim non-profit bought property in 2015.  The contention is that the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved changes to the county’s cemetery ordinance that effectively disqualified plans for the Muslim burial ground in 2016.

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