decorated graves

[Mike Stevens]

We happened by the local cemetery today. Close to the highway we saw a decorated grave. So we went in to take a better look. Is this something a local thing or do people in your area decorate graves over the holidays?
Mike

 

[Wayne Krakowski]

At the cemetery in Woodstock, Ontario where my parents are buried, they have winter rules, whereas we place an artificial wreath for the winter as well as a red glass candle, they would frown on that because of the weather and sometimes access limited to the site, I remember them going to California years ago where they said the cemetery was covered in gifts mainly toys for children buried there, they had never seen anything like it,

 

[Mike Boyer]

Most cemetery's out in the country that I know have what they call "Decoration Day" where people go and clean up the grounds in the spring and decorate the stones with Flags and Flowers

 

[Steve Lichtman]

Arlington National Cemetery, wreaths courtesy Wreaths Across America.

 

[Kevin Lynch]

National Cemeteries

Thanks Steve- was going to post a picture of my folks gravesite- but basically it would show the same thing!!! Boy scouts and military school students did the work here.

 

[Tim A. Fantin]

I have pictures of my great-grandfathers grave in the early 1930's just full of stuff for Christmas. So it's been going on for some time now. I would suppose different cemeteries have different sets of rules. As for my great-grandfather, it was his family the started the cemetery and owned it at the time of the pictures ( Ridgelawn Cemetery in Gary, Indiana ) so I'm sure it wasn't a problem. As a matter of fact my great uncle and my great aunt met at that funeral as my great uncle was the grave digger. They later married and moved into a house on the cemetery grounds.