CHILLICOTHE— Volunteers in Ross County recently learned how to properly clean old grave markers and put their education to work over a hot summer day. The local Ross County Historical Society Memorial ...
Volunteers are needed to help preserve a beautiful outdoor museum of Granville history. Volunteers will clean and straighten headstones in the Old Colony Burying Ground, located on South Main Street, ...
Warren Stirling stood in front of his family’s gravestones on Saturday, June 29, staring down at his great-great grandfather’s marker. Frederick J. Woodbury, or Captain Fred, was one of the founders ...
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 ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)- Nearly 2 dozen volunteers showed up to help fix three veteran headstones. The goal is to repair a total of eight this summer. Volunteers with the Evergreen Heritage ...
Volunteers clean headstones at nearly 70 national cemeteries across the U.S. on Sept. 11. A volunteer has traveled from Greenup to help clean at Camp Butler National Cemetery for the past few years.
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — Every year for Memorial Day, the Rock Island National Cemetery honors veterans buried in its hallowed grounds by placing an American flag at their headstones. Part of the ...
SIOUX CITY -- When Bill Harstad first noticed a gravestone with a tiny lamb on top of it at Floyd Cemetery, the white marble tablet was covered with dark staining from lichen growth. The upright ...
The scrape, scrape, scrape sounds like a dental hygienist using a scaler to clean teeth. But here in Cemetery No. 2 on San Antonio's historic East Side, it's actually Mark Richerson using a plastic ...
BEMIDJI — You could say that every day is Memorial Day for Luvern “Ike” Eickhoff. The 94-year-old Korean War veteran spends his time and money cleaning headstones at cemeteries all around northwestern ...