Hooray for everyone involved. Mr.Rick VanNatter did the right thing in
contacting the correct people. Without word getting out about who we are
and what we do, this tombstone may have ended up in entirely different
hands. Now it is with someone who will give it the respect denied all these
years. My hats off to all of you.
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kreps" <mjkreps(a)tmcsmail.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Fw: Article
Delaware Co. Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Committee rescues gravemarker.
Check out
http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/5/008152-5165-004.html
WRTV Channel 6 plans to run a story Tuesday evening at 11:00 pm and at
6:00
pm Wednesday evening.
Mark Kreps
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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 the 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 sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
--Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA