11 April 2024 | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Brownsville, MN
Love this style of lettering with the very precisely drawn/carved lines in polished Wausau Red granite. Reminds me of the Sime monument across the Mississippi and one hundred miles away near Merrimac, Wisconsin (Sauk County). Not sure how all this happened 120 years ago but it always feels good to wonder about it.
Don't come in five years time just to tell me you are sorry and you want to make
amends.
Our friendship is dead and buried a long time ago.
I'm used to taking its grave carnations each year on its death anniversary and saying
a prayer for it; hoping that wherever it is, it has found peace.
So when you see my quotes around the media, pretend that I don't exist.
Pretend that is someone else who is writing about something you feel related to.
30 April 2024 | St Michael’s Cemetery, Juneau County, Wisconsin
This grave marks the first time in 12+ years of working in 400+ cemeteries in southwest Wisconsin that I have seen a monument cradled in a hand made grotto structure. And the first time I have seen a marble monument sculpted in this shape. Note Mary Ann Uravich died in her early thirties in 1969. It is easy to imagine this was created by the hands of a seriously mourning man, when this area was quite remote, who lived with a broken heart until his own early death at 58 in 1994.