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From: "Joy Durrett" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] CEMETERY LAWS
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 08:30:14 -0700
References: <20050410.095511.2564.2.kimbuc4@juno.com>


It may be more than I wanted to know but at least I know the procedure now.

Thanks Bill.
Joy
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Subject: [MO-CEM] CEMETERY LAWS


> Sharon,
>
> 1. Check with the County Clerk's Office.
> 2. That failing, contact the Secretary of States office in Jefferson
> City.
> 3. Check with the receiving cemetery
>
> Since the stone is not over the grave it is now referred to as a memorial
> stone. The cemetery you want to relocate it to is pivotal. When I helped
> relocate a cemetery in St. Louis the receiving cemetery would only take
> undamaged stones. One of the cemeteries would only allow them to be
> placed flat, while others would allow them to be set as normal at the
> families expense.
>
> You may have to buy another grave, even tho there will be no burial,
> unless the cemetery has an area designated for memorial stones, which may
> also entail purchasing something.
>
> There really are no specific laws concerning disposal of tombstones. When
> we removed the above cemetery we must have destroyed over 5,000 of them.
> It was cheaper to destroy the old ones and replace with a new one that
> was flat. The only tombstones covered by any sort of law are
> government/VA provided stones which are supposed to be picked up by the
> VA and destroyed, however they usually don't.
>
> When the vandals hit a cemetery and damage stones, it is the family's
> responsibility to reset them. Time is money and the cemetery isn't going
> to spend their perpetual care money for this.
>
> I once asked a cemetery manager what did "Perpetual Care Really Mean",
> his answer was "When the family Complained", his language was a bit more
> colorful.
>
> Probably more than you wanted to know.
>
> Bill
>
> Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
>
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