There is a beautiful old cemetery here in Houston called Glenwood. If you have heard about it at all, you have heard about it because that is where Howard Hughes is buried. We decide that is where we would like to be buried. Whole. As in not cremated.
We have been talking about this for several years, and Doreen finally made an appointment for us to visit there yesterday.
So at 10:00 AM last Saturday, we went to Glenwood to see what was available. Now, one may imagine that a cemetery that has been in operation for almost 150 years would be running out of space, but that is not true.
Having worked in a cemetery myself (St Mary's Cemetery in Appleton Wisconsin. Tailgunner Joe is buried there) I knew there would be spaces. There are always spaces to fit in two more plots.
But we had a nice tour of the place, and talked cemetery talk most of the time. (Do you use a vault here? Yes, that is our standard. Is it a law? No, I don't think so. How deep do you bury? Five feet or so. Us, too. We just had to get under the frost line. We usually did four feet. An on like that)
We saw several plots we liked. This one was my second choice:
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| From Glenwood Cemetery |
and this one was my first choice:
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| From Glenwood Cemetery |
We are going back today to take another look. I will try to get better photos of the neighbors.
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