I always say, whatever it takes. If we're going to get proprietary about
the "phrases" we come up with while we're all struggling to combat this
dilemma, then we better just all back out now.
Use ANYTHING I write to help save these places, no matter what subject I
write back about.
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: G Tielking <tielking(a)knightstown.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Hancock County cemeteries
Sue,
OOOH! That would have been the perfect answer to that statement.!
I have been thinking of writing a letter to the editor of the local paper
again about the meeting. With your permission, could I use your line?
Angela
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Silver" <ssilver1951(a)jps.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Hancock County cemeteries
> Angela,
>
> A day late and a dollar short...
>
> You could have responded to the commissioner who had gotten "zero calls"
> that you don't believe the dead have phone service!
>
> Sue Silver
> CA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: G Tielking <tielking(a)knightstown.net>
> To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Hancock County cemeteries
>
>
> > Good point, Sandy! My husband brought up the point at the
commissioner's
> > meeting that if they continue to ignore the problem, the
restoration
of
> the
> > cemeteries would cost the county and trustees more because of the
neglect.
> > They didn't even blink an eye. I really don't think they care. I have
> called
> > and e-mailed everyone I know who would possibly call or write the
> > commissioners or write the editor of the paper. Mr. Kleiman (a
> commissioner)
> > said he has received zero calls, well, now I hope he is bombarded with
> them!
> > Thanks,
> > Angela
>
>
>
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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,
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