Congratulations Helen
Dale Drake <ddrake(a)ccrtc.com> wrote:To all:
Our own Helen Wildermuth was honored last Tuesday, April 20, by the Morgan County Historic
Preservation Society. I had the great pleasure of introducing her and announcing that she
had been named Morgan County Preservationist of the Year for 2004. She was honored for her
many good works here in the county, most particularly her efforts after the tornadoes of
September 20, 2002. She single-handedly organized a major cleanup effort in Hilldale
Cemetery in Martinsville, the hardest hit of the many cemeteries damaged by storms.
Volunteers from as far away as Michigan came to the Cleanup Day on October 19, and filled
up many large trucks and dumpsters with tree and building debris. She and Mark Davis then
spent a second day resetting and repairing 25 stones damaged by the flying debris, and she
finished the repairs of 80 additional stones on her own time after that. Her preservation
work is also in evidence in many other cemeteries in this county, and her documentation on
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ll of our cemeteries is stored at Morgan County Public Library. She's been my friend
and co-cemetery geek since the early 1990s, and I'm very proud to have been chosen to
give her this well-deserved award.
Dale Drake
Morgan County History & Genealogy Assn.
Cemetery Committee
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"Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Congratulations Helen
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