Where have all the flowers gone?
Apr 18, 2012 | 300 views | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Editor:

Where have all the flowers gone? This is about the Beeville Memorial Park.

My little brother passed away in February of 1961, my grandparents in 2011. When I was old enough, I took flowers to my brother’s grave and talked to him. Every season, I would put new flowers on his grave. I do the same thing to my grandparent’s and my dad’s. I always say a prayer at each grave. I have been missing flowers when I go to visit them.

The other day, I was at the cemetery, and some men were digging a new grave. I went over and asked where all the flowers from my brother’s, grandparent’s and dad’s graves had gone. They were told that anything in the ground or on the ground was to be disposed of. I told them that they were disrespecting the graves. Those flowers were put there in memory of them. They told me that if the flowers or anything else was put on the ground, it would be disposed of.

I called the owner of the cemetery, and he told me the same thing. This is not right. I feel very hurt.

Robert Doubrava

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ecothes
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April 23, 2012
My daughter passed away during birth in January of 2011. She was born in Virginia to my husband and I as, once proud, Beevillians... and we specifically had her FLOWN TO TEXAS to be buried at Beeville Memorial Cemetary. If I, as a mother mourning the loss of her child, want to place flowers or a penny for good luck at her headstone, so help me God I will. Fine me, arrest me, Do what you will... but you will NOT disrespect my family in the way you are trying to Beeville Memorial. Reholmes is right, a cemetary without flowers is like a cemetary in which no one cares. Dont worry Beeville Memorial, your attempt to clean up will only come back to bite you, give it a year when all the grass is dead to heat and everything looks like a desert. Since you want to remove the flowers, How about you fix the run down busted out cross fountain in the front that you've let fall apart. How about you fix your busted broken sign with the cemetaries name on it. HOW ABOUT you build an actual office building that actual people ACTUALLY WORK IN?! better yet, fix the busted fences, the caliche pits, the dead flowers that blow around. Dont remove what families have placed and maintain. Hire STAFF to clean up the MESS. Between the mental breakdown of the loss of my child, plus the cost of having her flown TO beeville, plus the cost of the funeral, burial, and to BE buried at what once was a pretty cemetary...I dont like to be that person...but alone, the cost of having my baby buried at the cemetary... i feel like BEEVILLE MEMORIAL OWES ME A REINBURSEMENT. I was under the impression part of that cost included being able to visit my daughters gravesite and give her a small plushed bunny for easter, a pinwheel to lighten things up, or a solar light to memorialize her stone. Her grandmother goes out at LEAST 4 days out of the week to clean things up and make sure it isnt dirtying the cemetary. SO PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME why everyone has to suffer for those that dont maintain their gravesites... when you could simply HIRE workers to clean up. This is appalling, disgraceful, and mark my words I will ALWAYS take flowers to my daughter. You want a fight, i promise you will have one.
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reholmes
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April 19, 2012
Robert I highly agree with you and deplore the cemetery organization for their actions. A cemetery with no flowers is like a cemetery in which no one cares about their loved ones. Very disrespectful to be removing them from the graves sites. There really should be an ordinance against such actions. God bless and I pray many more respond in just kind to your editorial.
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