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Laurie Verge · (This post was last modified: 06-07-2013 09:32 AM by Laurie Verge.)

We have a rash of tombstone tippings around here. Young gentlemen (or older drunks) go into graveyards at night and tip over any marker they can. This happened in our cemetery about ten years ago. It cost us over $3000 to get everything uprighted and repaired. The idiots don't realize that some of those old tombstones that are eight- and ten-feet high weigh up to a ton and could topple on them. They also steal anything made of metal or bronze and also the antique figurines such as lambs.

Jim - I never thought of it that way. There's a good barbecue joint in that mall also, so I can gnaw on ribs and mac & cheese while communing with my elders. I'm now going online to find a nice cemetery bench to sit on. There's none there at present. P.S. Never had Wild Irish Rose win. How sick will I get?

Forgot to respond to Rich's question about when we learned of the supposed disposition of the Rathbones' remains: To the best of my knowledge, that information started making the rounds with Mike Kauffman after the daughter of a German resident of that area supposedly got the information and gave it to Mike. I am pretty sure that she did not take the trip such as Eva did to verify everything because she reported that the cemetery was destroyed by bombings during WWII. Eva's research is much more thorough.