Yesterday was Memorial Day, and Craig, Lisa, and I made the rounds of the family gravesites in the Lafayette area. Our first stop was Rest Haven Memorial Park on Sagamore Parkway (52) in Lafayette.
Craig's Fairchild grandparents, Charles and Blanche, are buried here.
As is their daughter (and Phyllis' sister) and her husband, Marybelle and Bob Pechin.
We tried to find a cousin's grave, Susan (Sheryl?) Cleaver, and asked the cemetery manager for help. He was more than happy to show us where she was buried.
Only she was not on his list of graves. Her daughter was, and we found the spot where she had been buried, but there was no grave marker that we could find.
Then it was off to Colfax to visit the graves of Craig's parents, other grandparents, and great-grandparents.
Cormilles and Mary Isenbarger's graves.
Lisa puts flowers on Pooma and Boompa's headstones.
The cemetery in Colfax is quiet and peaceful.
I love the setting but it is so far from Lafayette that we don't get to visit the graves very often.
The headstone of Craig's great grandparents, Isaac and Emma Isenbarger.
Last it was back into West Lafayette to Grand View Cemetery at the top of Salisbury hill and overlooking Happy Hollow Park.
Here we put flowers on my mother's parents' headstone, Earl and Georgia Honeywell...
... and that of my parents, Jack and Fern Martin.
I'm glad we live close enough to visit and honor the graves of so many family members. I plan to go to Terre Haute in a week or so and visit the graves of my other grandparents, Robert and Wilma Martin.
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