I stopped at Rest Haven Cemetery today to visit the graves of my father, grandmother, and uncle and marveled at the bright pop of ruby-red poinsettias all across the grounds. The plots in the American Legion section are overlaid with deep green wreaths, and here and there a tiny tinsel Christmas tree or garnet and gold bow flutters atop a headstone. Most of Rest Haven’s graves are decades old, but the families of the deceased continue to adorn them at special times of year.
I will always believe that, for as long as they could, families with loved ones buried in Vick and Odd Fellows trekked to those cemeteries for similar purposes. Lane Street Project doesn’t have the resources to decorate every grave marker at Odd Fellows and, of course, none remain at Vick. Still, we remember our dead this season and always.
Photos by Lisa Y. Henderson, December 2024.
THANK YOU, LISA, FOR PROTECTING THE MEMORY OF OUR LOVED ONES. We are because they were; thus, their spirits are still alive in us and you recognize this.
THANK YOU. You always take the time to lift their memories up through your diligent, on-going research and your gifted walks among their grave sites….even in the winter months.
You are truly a special kind. May God’s peace, grace , and mercy forever be with you.
Thank you!! All the blessings of the season to you!