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Unread 04-01-2021, 11:38 PM   #1
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Edgar, it seems every decade or so tha Parker Family Plot requires repair and maintenance and quite likely bi-weekly inspection and mowing.

Your pictures remind me of Dave Suponski’s efforts and the PGCA’s layout of a few thousand dollars to rebuild and repair the headstones and their bases.
I wonder if the PGCA should contract a local landscape operation for this responsibility and to report back to the PGCA whenever they find something amiss.






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Unless I am mistaken, The work that Dave organized, and contracted for, was in 2012, and there's no record, or mention of any work prior to that, or, until now, since then. Two points may form a straight line but they don't indicate a trend. Dexter Parker was the last member interred in the family plot, in 1925. His headstone is much more recent, but is the only indication that anything was done, or added until Dave jumped in. Given these facts, a good restoration of the plot, with only regular lawn maintenance, may be all that's necessary.
Neither Keith Bedard, nor I have degrees in Rocket science, but the thought of hiring a regular service has more than crossed our minds.
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Rest assure we are looking into every possible solution to clean the headstones causing as little damage to the stone & the restoration entire Parker site .

Give us a little breathing room, you will be pleased with the final product. Remember---Edgar owned and ran a foundry business, Keith runs his own maintenance business, & I owned and ran a civil engineering/land surveying co.
WE ARE ALL PROBLEM SOLVERS.

We are working on all resources & avenues.

Best to all
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