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Glitzy Vietnam cemetery offers bling for the dead

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 10:25am

KY SON, Vietnam — This is where Vietnam’s rising middle class is dying to flaunt its bling: a new cemetery at the end of a golden-gated “Highway to Eternity” where relatives can order graveside offerings of Hennessy online.

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Cemetery expansion proposed in Farmington

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 10:38pm

FARMINGTON -- A proposal to expand the city cemetery -- potentially adding up to 1,600 burial plots in three phases -- will be presented to residents who live in the region as a possible solution to shrinking burial space in the city.

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Grass at the Syracuse Memorial Park was damaged recently, apparently by a truck. Two sisters visiting their parents’ grave nearby noticed the damage and complained to cemetery workers.

Syracuse cemetery damage upsets two sisters

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 11:08pm

SYRACUSE -- Two 35-foot-long, 18-inch-wide ruts in the lawn of Syracuse Memorial Park -- the city cemetery -- concern and sadden sisters Donna Walker and Sharon Cook.

The pair contends that the 4-inch-deep ruts, caused by what they believe to be a dual-wheeled truck, have disturbed the sacredness of the hallowed grounds. They empathize with the families whose headstones are near the grooves.

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Farmington weighs cemetery options

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 11:57pm

FARMINGTON -- City officials are renewing their efforts to find new cemetery space.

The city is running out of cemetery lots, and options for a new burial ground are getting harder to find. City leaders have discussed the pending problem for several years and are renewing that effort.

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Kirk Mildon works on Thursday in the Ogden City Cemetery to free the memorial for locals who died in World War I. The plaque is being restored and will be returned to its place with a new granite foundation.

Volunteers work to refurbish World War I memorials in Ogden

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 11:49pm

OGDEN -- The effort Ogden's predecessors made toward erecting a permanent monument to honor Weber County's fallen World War I heroes was clear to those who worked to tear it down Thursday.

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West Haven to get its first cemetery

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 11:35pm

WEST HAVEN -- Those who wish to be buried in West Haven will soon be able to.

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Local firm to create a veterans memorial in Farmington cemetery

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 11:25pm

FARMINGTON -- A local developer has been awarded the bid to establish a new veterans memorial at the city cemetery.

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Syracuse raises burial costs

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 11:10pm

SYRACUSE -- Burial costs for both residents and nonresidents in Syracuse City Cemetery are increasing.

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Cemetery director sentenced to 12 years over 'bogus graves'

Deanese Williams-Harris Chicago Tribune

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 4:12pm

CHICAGO -- A former director of Burr Oak Cemetery was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday after she pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from "bogus graves" found on the burial grounds in Chicago suburb of Alsip, Ill.

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Group wants to improve war memorial at Ogden cemetery

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 3, 2011 - 10:23pm

OGDEN -- The Weber County Heritage Foundation wants to help former Ogden Mayor Frank Francis keep a promise he made in 1921. The promise is still in place but has grown a bit worn, bent and crumbly over the decades.

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Shown here are items recovered by police that were taken from the Centerville City Cemetery.by a 53-year-old Bountiful woman.

Bountiful woman cited for cemetery thefts

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 2:09pm

CENTERVILLE — A 53-year-old Bountiful woman has received citations for multiple thefts of cemetery decorations, which had occurred during May and June.

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Many events planned to honor veterans

Charles F. Trentelman, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 11:33pm

OGDEN -- Ceremonies honoring America's military veterans are planned this weekend across the Top of Utah.

Many events will be held at area cemeteries. Here is a schedule:

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More cemetery theft charges

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 8:57pm

SYRACUSE -- After being charged with stealing from the Clinton and West Point cemeteries, a Clinton woman stands accused of doing the same in Syracuse.

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Bountiful plans cemetery cleanup

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:57pm

BOUNTIFUL -- City officials are asking residents not to place flowers or decorations on graves at the city cemetery before Thursday.

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The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood is undergoing a $22 million reconstruction project and work is being performed on Thursday, May 5, 2011. They have had a steady increase in burials for the last 12 years since they opened and are anticipating more burials as veterans for WWII, Korean and Vietnam are being buried there. The Abraham Lincoln Honor Guard takes part in military ceremonies for most of the funerals. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Demand rising at VA cemeteries

Chicago Tribune, Mary Owen

Last updated Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 10:13am

CHICAGO -- Jerry Schoppe spent 20 years in the Army, serving at posts worldwide. For his 25th birthday he dodged bullets in a dugout in the Vietnam War, and when he dies the Plainfield, Ill., resident wants to be buried at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

"It is something that I feel I have earned by standing out there and letting someone shoot at me," said Schoppe, 70, commander of Cantigny Post 367 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Joliet, Ill.

"Plus, there's a lot of comrades buried there," he said. "Most of the people out there have gone through some similar stuff to what I have gone through."

Requests from people such as Schoppe have increased each year since the cemetery in southwest suburban Elwood opened in 1999.

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