David Garcia has been struggling to sell a plot his mother owns at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Arlington Heights. He’s ...
It is a leap in logic for the Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to argue in his Feb. 13 Times Op-Ed article that because a parking lot has been built by Israel over ...
CARLISLE - Before he died in April 1897, Henry Spradley, a former slave, had earned the respect of his community. A former member of the U.S. Colored Troops 24th Infantry Regiment, Spradley had spent ...
Think Arlington National Cemetery and a clear picture comes to mind: Straight, stoic rows of uniformly white headstones. The scene is as beguiling as it is honorific. Crisp lines of grave markers ...
Randall Keel doesn’t have friends or family members buried in the majority of cemeteries he visits, but he treats each one with the same dignity and respect as the ones where he does. Keel, senior ...
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Crumbling brick pillars at Greenlawn Memorial Park cemetery in east Columbus show the wear and tear of time. The tangle of brush that covered them not long ago, however, is gone ...
The number of U.S. military veterans who cremated remains are unclaimed runs into the tens of thousands, and probably a whole lot more. Fifteen were given a proper sendoff during July 15 ceremonies in ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Highland Cemetery near 9th and Hillside is one of the oldest cemeteries in Wichita. The city owns the cemetery, but weather, vandals, and deferred maintenance have taken a toll ...
GREENFIELD — Time had not been kind to the relatively small cemetery on a quiet country road. Falling trees and vandalism had taken their toll over the years. Hinchman Pioneer Cemetery, just off ...
Tom Rothfuss was just doing his job. As a caretaker of the Webster Union Cemetery for the past five years, his job is to make sure the final resting places of many people are pristine and remain in a ...