Laid to Rest

Today is Memorial Day and obviously some of my family members took time the time to pay a visit to Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery outside of Union Grove.

The cemetery inters caskets and cremation urns year-round.  Cremated remains may be interred either in ground, in an above ground columbarium or in a scattering area that allows families to place cremated remains in-ground without a burial container.  All internments are memorialized with a government marker that includes the veteran’s name, rank, branch of service, war period, birth date, death date and spousal information.  Families also have the option of adding an additional inscription/term of endearment to their loved ones’ marker if space is available on the marker.

My brother and his wife and my brother-in-law and his wife both texted me pictures of the marker in the columbarium.  Which, by the way, enjoys a spectacular view to the west and all of the sunsets that are afforded.