William Douglas Fleet’s version of paying rent three years ago was picking up garbage in the area where he parked his car for the night. It was Fleet’s way of saying “thank you for getting me through ...
Fern Prairie Cemetery traces its roots to the original land claim of pioneer Lewis Van Vleet. It began as a small family burial ground before evolving into one of east Clark County’s oldest co ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — On Memorial Day, people visit cemeteries to honor our veterans who are gone. But too often, these graves are deteriorating, dirty and difficult to read. One local ...
ALTADENA – Altadena’s “Good Cemeterians” will host a special session Saturday, June 29, to celebrate cleaning their 1,000th headstone. The public event, held at Mountain View Cemetery, will consist of ...
The sun has just risen over the mountains surrounding Maple Hill Cemetery in Dorset, Vermont, giving the headstones here a kind of warmth that only comes in late fall. Some of these graves date back ...
Once a month, Rene Amy gets some cleaning supplies and volunteers together and heads to his Alta Dena neighborhood historic cemetery to scrub and scrub. Saturday morning, the crew was out at the ...
Caitie Hilverman visits the cemetery almost every day, cleaning dirt, lichen, and grass from neglected headstones.
In 2024, we brought you the story of Cooper Rey, a Sioux Falls Life Scout on a mission to highlight the stories of late ...
Reading many of the names, dates and epitaphs in the pioneer section of Belle Passi Cemetery was challenging until Heather Lagaso came along. The Gervais woman has hand-cleaned nearly 200 gravestones ...