Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah.
October 4, 2017. McKay Willis, Chair of the Laketown Cemetery, and Dwayne Robinson, board member, asked county
commissioners for advice on what to do
with unmarked graves. Willis said some families
don’t put headstones even though there is a
rule that a marker must be placed
within one year of the internment.
Willis would like to put in a headstone on unmarked graves and put a
lien on the family’s property. He said a
nice marker costs about $150.
There are two unmarked graves, one is from 1973, it had a
temporary marker from Crandall Mortuary. But
there are no records about who is buried there.
Commissioner Bill Cox said that markers are necessary to
locate burials and grave, but sometimes there are family issues. Cox said his father worked diligently to get
markers on every grave in Woodruff before he died.
Cox asked about raising the lot fees or charging to open and
close a grave. Laketown spent a lot of
money last year on opening winter graves. There
is a $100 cost for two graves in
Laketown.
Opening and closing fee in Randolph is $300. Woodruff is $100. Cox suggested that there should be a grave
opening fee in Laketown which would give them more income. Cox suggested a $200 opening and closing fee.
The Laketown Board of Directors can set fees, but need to
have a public hearing. Willis said they
will do it when the budget hearing is done.
Laketown is also going to make rules for flowers and other things to be
removed within a certain period of time.
There should be nothing on the ground.
Cox said that there should be a ordinance written spelling
it all out. Garden City Cemetery took
all the shepherds hooks and disposed of them.
Because there was no ordinance in Garden City, said Cox, against shepherd’s
hooks a family sued.
Norm Weston asked about reclaiming old plots that have never
been used. Willis said that they have
bought some back.
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