She's been nipping at the heels of Lansing officials for eight years to better maintain the city's three cemeteries. She's also president of Friends of Lansing's Historic Cemeteries. Stanaway has a business called Memorial Minders where she maintains 125 graves for family members who hire her to plant, weed and make sure the plots are in good order. "It's acceptably well maintained in my view," she said. She said Glendale does fine, about average.
I asked Loretta Stanaway, who is arguably the area's biggest cemetery expert, her view on the ongoing maintenance at Glendale. The five full-time maintenance workers will get seasonal help as six college students hired for the summer begin work this month. It's a job that takes 72 hours to finish. He said it will be done this week, weather permitting, the first time this season. Here's the township's side: Antone agreed that trimming needs to be done. He painted the urn last year and planted flowers in hopes that they would come back up this year.
He visits and maintains the graves of his parents, grandparents, great-grandmother and a sister. One marker in an older part of the cemetery was snapped off from the base and the brick columns are crumbling at the entryway of the cemetery that dates back to 1887. I met Mann, 74, a Motor Wheel retiree from DeWitt, at the cemetery earlier this week and found that though it had been mowed, there was tall grass between the markers. With Memorial Day right around the corner, cemeteries are being prepped for the biggest day of the year, a time to plant flowers, clean up weeds and mark the graves of veterans with small flags to remember them. What Mann viewed as disrespect was viewed as a courtesy service by Dennis Antone, facility superintendent for the township.
Mann was upset that his large, heavy urn with dirt and perennial flowers appeared to be unceremoniously dumped at the Glendale Cemetery on Mount Hope Road, owned and maintained by Meridian Township.īut township officials say they tipped over his urn and some others in the fall to keep them from gathering water, freezing and cracking. OKEMOS – A tipped-over urn and tall grass on a family cemetery plot was like a slap in the face for Jerry Mann when he visited before Mother's Day.
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