[78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!

[David Lennick]

I beg your pardon. I did not make an accusation, I expressed an opinion. And I 
stand by it. The message was terse because I didn't feel like rambling on about 
the morbidity of public visits to gravesites, which I find nauseating in the 
extreme, whether they're to a little site or f*cking Graceland. The man died, 
his family marked his burial place.

dl

bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
> I totally agree, but it is not my hatchet, I did not make that terse unnecessary comment. He made an accusation and I responded accordingly. As far as I am concerned the matter of the dueling comments is closed. Not the Billy Murray Tribute matter. 
> 
> Bruce 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net> 
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 12:16:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?! 
> 
> 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> 
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:53 AM 
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?! 
> 
> 
>>
>> 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 
>>> ________________________________