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MAY YOU HAVE A NEW YEAR

FILLED WITH GOOD HEALTH,

HAPPINESS & PROSPERITY.

Contacting A Cemetery Office

Cemetery offices can be busy places at times and often the staff is small. They get a lot of people visiting and looking for graves. To save yourself some time, and the office staff some stress, write well in advance of your visit.

The following suggestions may help you get a response more quickly:

Always enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for your reply.

Request a cemetery map with the location of each plot marked on it. This will help you find the graves you are seeking more quickly.

Limit your request to just a few grave locations. It is time consuming for the staff to look up the information and then mark it on a map. If you are requesting quite a number of lookups, allow more time to receive a response.

Give them the name you are looking for as well as the date of birth and death, and any other information you can provide that will help distinquish one person from another (such as a spouse, parent, or sibling's name). This is really important if you are researching a common name or there is more than one family member with the same name.

Not all graves are marked. Be sure to ask if there is a stone or marker on the grave. This just might save you a trip, if all you want is a photograph of the stone.

Try to visit the cemetery when the office is open in case you have trouble finding a grave and need more help.

And always write a Thank You to the person who sent you the information.

Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens, Lancaster Co., PA

Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens is located off 9th Street, just north of Route 30, in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

As I was leaving the cemetery several grave stones caught my eye and I just had to stop and take pictures.




Mother, Grandmother
LOWE
Margaret Rebecca
11/23/45 - 8/12/06

"Our Guardian Angel"






VALENTINE
Together Forever
Married July 20, 1958

John G.
Mar. 21, 1932
Dec. 17, 2000

Shirley L. (Widener)
Jun. 14, 1932, May 7, 2005

1915 Minnie P. Widener 2003

OBETZ

Jere L.
January 24, 1949
April 25, 2007

Barbara A.
November 8, 1960
[no death date]

WAKEFIELD

George A.
Nov. 27, 1944
[no death date]

Gloria J.
May 25, 1946
Jan. 22, 2000

Click on the pictures to get a larger view, especially the Wakefield stone.

Old DuQuoin Cemetery, Perry County, Illinois

WOODSIDES
Charles E.
Mar. 3, 1928 Jan. 20, 1991

Doris L.
Dec. 2, 1929 Nov. 21, 1999


WOODSIDES
Carl R.
Oct. 4, 1907 Apr. 20, 1986

Cora E.
Feb. 11, 1906 Aug. 30, 1980

Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois

Mary H. wife of R. T. Lyons
Died Aug. 30, 1876
Aged 24 Yrs. 10 Mo. 12 D.

[Note: Mary Harper Cathcart Lyons was the wife of Robert Thomas Lyons]







Cora May, Adopted Dau. of
S. W. & S. M. Patterson
Died Apr 8, 1882
Aged 6 Yrs, 1 Mo. 2 D.









Infant Son of
S. W. & S. M. Patterson
Born Jan. 19, 1869

(death date unknown)








Many thanks to Lucy Higgins for taking the above photos.

Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, York, Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Memorial Gardens is located on Chestnut Hill Road in York County, Pennsylvania. This photo is of the entrance to the cemetery.

The first 2 stones below are found in the John the Baptist section of the cemetery. The third is in the Solitary Life section.


This stone is for
Larry D. May
1943 - 2007

There is also a place reserved for his wife, Dawn Marea with the year of birth 1946


This is a combined gravestone:
Feltenberger
Edward C. 1914 - 1975
Velma M. 1914 - 2001


Sadly Missed By All

Daniel S. Grimm
1986 - 2003





The persons above were not related to me. I took the photos for other people. For more information visit their listings at findagrave.com

Brig. Gen. Wm. C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, New Jersey

The Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery is located at 350 Provence Line Road, Wrightstown, Burlington County, New Jersey.



Preston Jess Keeler, Jr.
AOMI U.S. Navy
Aug. 31, 1920 - Feb. 26, 2005
Betty Jane, his wife
May 13, 1923 - Oct. 2, 1993

[Betty Jane was the daughter of Orla Henry Bohannan and Mabel Stewart (Dougan) Bohannan]

Allen C. Pearlman
PVT U.S. Army
Mar. 22, 1914 - Mar. 27, 1991
Frances M., his wife
Nov. 9, 1917 - Jun 14, 2003