October 30, 2024
This is a Cemetery…
Lives are commemorated — deaths are recorded — families are reunited —
memories are made tangible — and love is undisguised.
This is a cemetery…
Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
historians seek information, and our heritage is thereby enriched.
Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone
to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life — not death —
of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for family memorials
that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
A cemetery is a history of people — a perpetual record of yesterday
and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.
A cemetery exists
because every life is worth loving and remembering —
always.
By Mary Lou Brannon of Brannon Monument Co. in Dubuque, Iowa
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