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Unfurling the flags: Volunteers adorn cemetery for July 4 weekend

By Jill Harmacinski. LAWRENCE — Volunteers answered the call to place hundreds of flags on veterans’ graves for the upcoming July 4 weekend. Those helping included more than two dozen police officers from Lawrence and several from Methuen. They met at Bellevue Cemetery on Wednesday morning and fanned out, putting flags on graves. Lawrence Veterans […]
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Coronavirus Through Cemetery Worker’s Eyes: ‘It Takes A Toll’

By Lisa Finn. CENTER MORICHES, NY — For Steve Scerri, who runs the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Center Moriches, the new coronavirus has changed life in ways that are almost impossible to voice. “It’s depressing, definitely,” Scerri said. Scerri has done his job diligently for 37 years, but he hasn’t experienced something like the coronavirus, […]
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NSA claims 145-year-old Fort Meade cemetery to build cyber defense building after it moves remains

By Selene San Felice. The Downs family saw their land become a military base during World War I. Now, their family cemetery is about to become a cyber defense building. Last week, a Maryland District Court judge granted the federal government the right to possess the 418-square-foot Downs Cemetery on the grounds of Fort George […]
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Burials without funerals, grief without hugs: Coronavirus is changing how we say goodbye

By Peter D. Kramer. Maggie Farley wants to remember the way her father lived – the Denver probate lawyer’s sense of humor, integrity and decades fighting for affordable housing – not how he died of COVID-19 with no family permitted at his hospital bedside. “I don’t feel like he died with regrets and I don’t […]
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Paris Cemetery Nearing Full Capacity Due to Coronavirus: ‘There Are More Deaths Than We Can Bury’

By Shachar Peled. PARIS – Deaths from the coronavirus are mounting in France and the Thiais cemetery on the outskirts of Paris is almost out of space. “In normal times we fill one row of graves per year,” says mortician Avraham Weinberg. “Now we are burying a row and a half every week.” On Monday, […]
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Coronavirus overwhelms New York’s mortuary system

By Matthew Chayes. So many people are dying from coronavirus in the metropolitan area that each link in the mortuary system is overwhelmed: morgues, hospitals, funeral homes, cemeteries, crematoria, even transportation between these places. “There’s people dying all over the place,” said Dan Moloney, co-owner of Lake Ronkonkoma-based Moloney Family Funeral Homes. “We’ve never seen […]
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Nearly 100 years after Tulsa Massacre, city plans to search cemetery for victims

By Mihir Zaveri. Archaeologists plan to excavate part of a cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., to see if it holds the remains of black residents slaughtered by white mobs during a massacre in 1921. The mayor said Wednesday it was an “unprecedented” step to address one of the worst instances of racist violence in American history, […]
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