[78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!

[simmonssomer]

Bruce,
Mr. Lennick has been a distinguished and most important member of this list 
for a long time .
As you are a funeral expert,  please bury that hatchet of yours.
You don't earn your bones this way.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!


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>
> It's an Idea, not our GD Business. It is a personal matter, I know that, I 
> work in the Funeral Industry and have been burying folks for the past 10 
> years !!!!! It only becomes our business if the IDEA is approved by the 
> heirs and we are Allowed to Poceed. So if the heirs don't want to honor 
> this man who deserves to be honored, then it is their GD business not 
> mine, not yours not anybodys and I know that !!
>
>
>
> Bruce
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 12:16:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!
>
> Excuse me, but how could this possibly be any of our goddam business? A
> tombstone inscription is a very personal matter.
>
> dl
>
> bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
>> It looks like there would be plenty of room to put a flat marker for 
>> Billy directly in front of the Family "Murray" Stone, could you check on 
>> that and see if that would be permissible ? I would think so.
>>
>> Bruce
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: bobhope @ optonline .net
>> To: 78-l@ klickitat .78online.com
>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:58:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!
>>
>> The section of the cemetery where Billy Murray is buried has narrow 
>> graves. There is only room for a small stone, and the cemetery has rules 
>> as to the height the stone may be. There is another grave backed up to 
>> his grave, and the headstone for that grave is backed onto his, making 
>> the reverse side unusable for inscription. My mother and father are 
>> buried in a similar site nearby.
>>
>> The next time I'm in the area I'll check to see if the grave index 
>> indicates if Billy's wife is buried with him. As far as adding any 
>> inscriptions to the stone, I believe that the plot owner, probably some 
>> family member, however distant, would have to approve it. I know that to 
>> have my mother's name added to the existing stone for my father I had to 
>> produce the deed to the plot. If the cemetery office is open when I'm 
>> there I'll inquire about it.
>>
>> Bob Lang
>>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:43:46 +0000 ( UTC )
>> From: bruce78rpm at comcast.net
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!
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>> Strange how there is no inscription on the reverse side of the Stone with 
>> his full name and dates of birth and passing. Is his wife buried in the 
>> same plot ? Since it was just him and his wife, and Billy had no 
>> children, maybe there was no one to order the stone mason to complete the 
>> job. I see many gravestones where this is the case, there are no 
>> remaining heirs or the ones that remain just forget to do the 
>> inscriptions, and after awhile the process is totally forgotten and lost 
>> with time. How sad.
>>
>> Bruce
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