Memory Day
We did good! We started out at Uncle John & Aunt Eleanor because we can find that one easily. It's the one with two big bushes.
Uncle Franks is in the next row back and a few South. We are all standing behind Frank. (the people next door have all the fake flowers so you can find it easily) 
Uncle Tony (88!), stonemason extraordinaire, straightened up Uncle John's stone but it is hard to read from the front. Those "shrubs" are nearly 30 years old! If you look at the previous post, second pic, my dad is hoeing next to the baby shrub. Hard to believe.
Tom, Donna, Patty, Alice and Tony at our grandma & pa's grave as well as Aunt Clara's and Charley's. Tony said to pronounce Galazka, GAWOONSKA It was officially changed to Galanski at some point.
This is grandma's mother and father. Their grave is in the other, older part of the cemetey along with little Maryann who died at about 6 weeks. 
We wouldn't have been able to find her grave if not for Tony. We all took note and they raised the stone a bit.
Alice's Bill and my Bill, Marty's Rich, & Tom's Shirley all came to help too and take pictures and share a beer and pizza afterward. It was a beautiful day to remember those we love.
6 comments:
A very special day! So nice to be together! The weather was perfect and all the planting and tidying went so well.. quick work with many willing hands... (happy to have those brawny fellas hauling water and earth to straighten the stones, while us ladies fiddled with the flowers...) I loved the hugs...
A celebration of life for those standing.. a day of honor and gratitude for those who went before us..
Thanks Patty, the pictures turned out well. Looks like the weather was cooperative for the clean-up and planting. We had much needed rain Sunday evening and part of Memorial Day in North Carolina.
Dona, you are so elequent!
Have a great month in France and send a post if you can.
Yes, it was a beautiful day in Detroit. That cemetery brings back so many memories.... I used to go there just about every week when I was growing up, the old part, that is. The trees must be just as old as some of the people underneath the gravestones. We must do this every year and get some of the younger generation interested in keeping up the tradition.
Thank you, thank you, thank you all for tending to the graves of our loved ones!!It means a lot to me, who cannot be there.
Lucy
Scott wanted me to mention that they will be up at Lakeport State Park the last weekend in June and up through July 4 weekend. If anyone is free it would be a good way to get everyone together again on the holiday weekend. What do you think? It's not far from Uncle Tony and Aunt Beth.
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