Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Cemeteries Along My Path #26 - Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens-Central

Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens - Central

Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida  

 
 
Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens - Central Cemetery, also known as Lauderdale Memorial Gardens, was established in 1953.
 
 
Rocky Marciano (1923-1969), heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1952-1956 is interred at Forest Lawn.
 
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Besides Rocky, my grandfather is buried in this cemetery -
 
 
 
499 Northwest 27th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
 
Other photos from Forest Lawn -
 



 
Other Links of Interest:
 
 
Find a Grave - http://bit.ly/10eNSwr
 
 
 

Monday, May 20, 2013

Symbolism Monday


www.findagrave.com
 
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a Government headstone or marker for the unmarked grave of any deceased eligible Veteran in any cemetery around the world, regardless of their date of death.

For eligible veterans that died on or after Nov. 1, 1990 and whose grave is marked with a privately purchased headstone, VA may also furnish a headstone or marker to supplement the graves or a Medallion to be affixed to the privately purchased headstone.

Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. Bronze niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for inurnment of cremated remains. The style chosen must be permitted by the officials in charge of the private cemetery where it will be placed.

When burial or memorialization is in a national cemetery, state veterans' cemetery, or military post/base cemetery, a headstone or marker will be ordered by the cemetery officials based on inscription information provided by the next of kin or authorized representative.

Spouses and dependents are not eligible for a Government-furnished headstone or marker unless they are buried in a national cemetery, state veteran's cemetery, or military post/base cemetery.

http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/

 
The Department of Veterans Affairs only permits graphics on Government-furnished headstones or markers that are approved emblems of belief.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day!


 
Remembering many of the special "mothers" in my life!
 
photo courtesy Save a Grave/Facebook

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Veteran served in latter stages of WWII, Part 2 | Examiner Enterprise, Bartlesville [Oklahoma]

According to WWII Navy Muster Rolls found on Ancestry.com, my grandfather - Stephen J. Cooke -served on the same ship - PC 801 - with Mr. Conaway!
 
 

 

Veteran served in latter stages of WWII, Part 2 | Examiner Enterprise, Bartlesville

By Joe Todd, Historian
 
(Editor’s Note: The following is the last of a two-part interview of Lester Thomas Conaway. Part 1 was published in the April 8 edition of the Examiner-Enterprise.)

Todd: You got to Pearl Harbor?
Conaway: That’s right. That is where I picked up PC 801.

T: What is PC 801?
C: Patrol Craft 801. It is a sub chaser. It had depth charges and two 40-mm guns and a five-inch 38 big gun on the front. It was made to go with a convoy, but we never did that. We did air-sea rescue out of Honolulu.

T: How many were on the ship?
C: There were about 80. We had five officer and two cooks.

T: What was your job on the ship?
C: I was just a deck hand. I did laundry for the whole ship. I got paid $4 from the officers and $2 from the rest of the crew each month.
 
 

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Texas Tuesday!


 
 
The bluebonnets are a-bloomin' in Texas!
 

 

Monday, April 29, 2013