grave markers

I priced a half ledger a few months ago and it was around 5,600.00. A full ledger must run 8K or 9K by now.

With the price of metals steadily rising, even the small markers must run 2K to 3K. If you need one (gulp), get it now--don't wait till the last minute!

Oh, and unless they've changed recently, Tri-Cities requires you buy the granite underlayer (not sure what that's called).

Are you serious? Those tacky things cost that much? I just had my grandparents replaced becaused it was destroyed by lawn equipment so I didn't find out the price. For that one should be able to have a fine marble monument erected.

I checked on line--the one pictured is 1,150.00, without a granite underlay and not including shipping.

Their half ledgers without granite or shipping started at 1,650.00. The price I got from Spry, the company now running the cemetery, included financing for five years. So, it would probably be much cheaper is you paid cash.

Good lord. Maybe I could crochet one.

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Originally posted by vick13:
Good lord. Maybe I could crochet one.

funny stuff vick - I was thinking the same thing.

My worst nightmare is that my family will not fulfill my wish of cremation and sprinkling. I'm awfully claustrophobic (casket = NO GOOD!) My granny died last week and had the drab funeral home gig going on---depressing. I don't want my beloved gazing upon my corpse. I need them to remember me as the dancing queen, or at least alive. Must you get a pass to be sprinkled? I'm sure human remains can't just go anywhere...

Actually after the body is cremated, I think the Health Department allows the ashes to be scattered anywhere. Some years ago, a young man who did odd jobs and lawn work for me died of AIDS. His family had a memorial service at Wildwood Park (Kiwanis/BarBar) and scattered part of his ashes there.

the first 3 letters of funeral are F U N! folks better party when I go. and I won't be surprised a bit if one of my friends slaps a bumper sticker on my casket that says, "I'd rather be breathing!"

Veterans' are free. For every veteran since the Revolutionary War. Flat bronze or upright marble.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mrs. Carl Brutananadilewski:
I'm awfully claustrophobic (casket = NO GOOD!)

Me too. People tell me I won't know it, I'll be dead but it's just the thought.

My granny died last week and had the drab funeral home gig going on---depressing.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

In the Episcopal church, we are all about saving the earth. Cremation is a big thing. Two of the local churches have columbariums where the ashes are stored with markers like a grave. Trinity church has a lovely garden with a fountain where the columbarium is. I think the total price is $500.00

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Originally posted by monster:
the first 3 letters of funeral are F U N! folks better party when I go. and I won't be surprised a bit if one of my friends slaps a bumper sticker on my casket that says, "I'd rather be breathing!"

Monster....Buddy...if you go brfore I do...you bet you get a Complete Tire exploding burn out in the parking lot complete with a full circle doughnut for the Funeral home to remember you by...Guaranteed..!!..By a Chevy of course..lol...

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Originally posted by Roofing Addic:

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Originally posted by monster:
the first 3 letters of funeral are F U N! folks better party when I go. and I won't be surprised a bit if one of my friends slaps a bumper sticker on my casket that says, "I'd rather be breathing!"

Monster....Buddy...if you go brfore I do...you bet you get a Complete Tire exploding burn out in the parking lot complete with a full circle doughnut for the Funeral home to remember you by...Guaranteed..!!..By a Chevy of course..lol...

that right there is what you call a friend! and if you go first, the burnout will have to be with a honda. reckon that'll do?

A friend of mine requested before he died a little more than a year ago, that his ashes be dumped in the local swimming hole in Bluewater creek.

Another friend of mine took his last ride on a motorcycle and his ashes were dumped at the site of the old home place where he was raised.

....i scattered my husband's ashes in Cypress Creek at Wildwood Park.

a friend has requested her ashes be mixed with wildflower seeds and scattered in a scenic place.

I want my ashes scattered somewhere where the view is so beautiful that if a loved one came there that they could not help but feel better when they see the view...like a mountain overlook or the bottom of a huge waterfall.

I think I can speak for roofer, that if our ashes were dumped in the material bin at a tire factory, we could both be turned into tire smoke at some point. but with my luck, I'd be put into a white wall for a station wagon.

I'd probably wind up as a Rubber dip bucket for septic tanks. I'll take the white wall...