My 16 year old daughter and I have a terrible addiction to cemeteries. So, as we are driving up to the Grand Canyon in our RV we go through Williams, AZ. We could hardly wait to park and set up the RV so that we could go back to the cemetery. We were as they say, "like kids in a candy shop".
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| Greek Orthodox |
Irma is well loved and remembered.
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| How far from home you were. |
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| Saint Francis Watches |
It is nestled at the foot of the mountains and has large pine trees. The plots are large and raised and they are decorated. No stodge rules about no decorations. These plots have character! You can tell who visits and keeps up the paint job and leaves tokens. Tokens are toys, ceramic angels, balloons, photos, flowers, rocks, etc. The cemetery was alive. Benches were in evidence in several places.
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We had no plan that day to photograph headstones, but how could we resist. Names called to us, plots of interest pulled us in another direction. We want to go back and properly document this cemetery.
Hello
ReplyDeleteI recently visited the area and did see the graves you posted. I took a few photo's if you would like to add them to your photo's here I would be happy to offer them. Most disturbing was the frame of a white baby crib.A tonka toy inside on the ground.
Also the grave site of the woman who took care of the graves and is now buried there. Mrs. petitt.
I still think of the haunting image of this "Living Cemetery". Email me at strycat@aol.com