[Magdalen] cemetery plots...

[Grace Cangialosi]

Mine is all paid for as well, David. $1500 total through the Virginia Cremation Society. I even have a container for my ashes--called a "scattering tube"--that is sitting on my mantel. 

> On Oct 3, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/3/2014 2:31:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
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> We have  not planned for our own deaths.>>>
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> The pattern has been established in my family to make cremation
> the norm.  A good part of this is that you can readily pay for the  fees
> in advance.  Most cremation groups have payment plans, so it's 
> relatively painless.  I've long since paid my fees which will cover  the
> cremation and the shipping to the family plots in NW Wisconsin.
> 
> There are two family burial plots just across from each other at the
> cemetery, and since cremains take so little space, there's plenty of
> room for several generations.
> 
> The lovely floral urns - there are three of them - that have been
> carefully planted each spring, tended by the cemetery staff
> (with extra fees) and stored each autumn will be kept going
> as long as I survive, but will discontinued after I'm gone.
> 
> I've just completed the VA forms for brass grave marker for me, indicating 
> what I want listed for my military service.  Along with the obvious  life 
> dates,
> it will simply be "Major, US Army Medical Corps, US Army Europe".
> This request will be on file in the NW Wisconsin Veterans' Office.
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> 
> David Strang.