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"headstone" Definitions
  1. a piece of stone placed at one end of a grave (= where a dead person is buried), showing the name, etc. of the person buried there

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But the next day, the groundskeeper went out to explore, Ms. Feigenbaum said, and found headstone after headstone upended.
It does not include a headstone or any cemetery charges.
In another shot, little Mylan is shown hugging the headstone.
But behind the scenes, the headstone was cause for concern.
Etching headstone portraits was a small part of his business.
One headstone there belongs to Rifleman V.J. Strudwick, age 24.
There's a new headstone in the satellite internet graveyard today.
Paying for her funeral, obituary, cremation, and headstone was overwhelming.
The family hasn't been able to pay for a headstone.
Check out the headstone at the Highgate Cemetery in North London.
There's just one more thing he needs to add: a headstone.
Danno photoshopped Hanson into the photo of Cipriani's parents' desecrated headstone.
Etched on his headstone are pine trees and pheasants in flight.
With a white cloth, she gently washed her daughter's black headstone.
Mendoza asks her what she would want on her own headstone.
The rapper posted one photo of colorful flowers at the grave's headstone.
Now, 90 years after her death, Ms. Bayes is getting a headstone.
Bobbi Kristina's headstone was installed as the investigation into her death continues.
Against an eerie silence, I placed a small pebble on his headstone.
They reached Vitaly Torotadze's grave and nestled the ball beneath his headstone.
One woman wants to buy a headstone for her father's grave, for example.
At night, the headstone apparently changes color and the index finger points down.
In their mother's place, they saw a new headstone with someone else's name.
Could he Photoshop Cipriani's name and the words "VERY SOON" onto the headstone?
The headstone is a basic look -- the boxer's name etched in black stone.
Imagine, for a second, having "death by dump truck" inscribed on your headstone.
Suddenly she pushed me onto the nearest headstone and started biting my lip.
Baby picture, smiling first day of school, crazy teen, lover, parent, grandparent, headstone.
Tolhildan's mother lovingly strokes the photograph on her daughter's headstone as he speaks.
The original headstone is kinda basic, and the elements have taken their toll.
These emblems tell a narrative beyond the name and rank on the headstone.
Each falling domino becomes a headstone, signifying the death of the next thing.
If I'm to have a headstone, I'd like that to be on it.
She's off figuring out how to get a headstone that is worthy of Richard.
You could buy a foam headstone lawn ornament and call yourself Kacey Mus-Graves?
The Herald-Leader also reported that strangers have offered to pay for Della's headstone.
Why did that headstone end up in a crawl space under the family home?
She buried her boy in a family plot but could not afford a headstone.
Then he raised thousands of dollars to make sure his friend had a headstone.
Their grave at Rosedale Cemetery has no headstone and is covered in white clover.
"Talley then reportedly started talking to the headstone: "How long have you been buried here?
A headstone added to the tomb after Man Ray's wife died was also knocked down.
Sadly, it ends with the singer and his two brothers crying at their father's headstone.
A headstone already bears not only her name, but those of her husband and children.
People reports that the public can now pay respects at the pair's mother-daughter headstone.
"TRUMP," read the headstone, and below that, "Donald J." The date of birth read 1946.
But a headstone could shrivel into a narrow granite pin, with a name inscribed vertically.
So officials buried the remains in Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium under an unknown headstone.
In his ignorance, Mr. Guerrero went searching for Lorraine's headstone in the City Island cemetery.
Prodded by Mr. Cumella's monthly emails, Woodlawn officials told him a headstone would be created.
Bobbi Kristina Brown's grave now has her headstone in place ... between her mother and grandfather.
The headstone is inscribed, "Resting Peacefully" and also has a musical note along the border.
Directly to its left stands a granite headstone inscribed with three roses and a bow.
Raborn hopes that one day, Baby Jane Doe will get a proper name and headstone.
The headstone also marks the burial spot of Fogg&aposs wife, Hannah, who died in 1790.
Adrienne Berger of northeast Philadelphia came to check on her parents' headstone and found it intact.
Why isn't anyone helping raise money for a headstone to be placed at her burial plot?
But during one trip to the plot, they noticed their mother's headstone was gone, WLKY reported.
His name is on a card slotted into a plastic envelope glued onto the makeshift headstone.
Cipriani said he knew that Danno was the one who poured paint on his family headstone.
Then he asked him to throw fake blood on the headstone and photograph it that way .
"My father made the crucifix, and when the headstone came, somebody threw it out," Vo explained.
Vandals were still shooting bullet holes in his brother's headstone over four decades after his murder.
The PayPal money, they hoped, would climb to $2,500 — enough, they thought, to buy the headstone.
The new headstone was made in New Mexico and features a lithograph of John Pierre's face.
Nate Dogg's new headstone is a masterpiece ... no better way to pay homage to a legend.
Less than three years later, the Daydream was just another headstone in Google's big product graveyard.
Soon after, Ms. Holecko got a call from a company that wanted to donate a headstone.
The video even starts in a cemetery, with the headstone for her reputation sitting front and center.
A GoFundMe page to help raise donations toward a headstone for Cena has already met its goal.
George is buried next to his mom, who does have a headstone, but the singer's is bare.
Inside the railing, right behind a headstone bearing an etched portrait, hangs another poster of Commander Mahdi.
His mother, Najma, slumps down into the churned up earth and kisses the photograph on his headstone.
Each grave had a small piece of paper tucked next to the headstone with the victim's name.
Claudette Craig paid extra for an oversize coffin, she said, but had no money for a headstone.
That includes a symbol on a headstone that corresponds to the deceased's religion, or the Peace Cross.
Wandering among the graves, Mr. Oshima stopped short: His name, in Korean, was carved into a headstone.
I've often said I want it written on my headstone as the one rule I actually lived by.
When they arrive at the tree there's a freshly dug grave and headstone that reads: Here lies sinners.
At the foot of the headstone is a withered rose, most of its petals stolen by the wind.
Maposa pushes through a thicket of thorn-bushes to a raised dirt grave with a simple cement headstone.
The late rapper's new headstone was unveiled over the weekend at Forest Lawn in Long Beach, his hometown.
Then back upstairs and out to the cemetery he went, to point out the headstone awaiting its purpose.
They then opted for a simpler headstone, but last month Brett had the image tattooed onto his forearm.
At St. Paul's, at Broadway and Vesey Street, Jarmusch held a cemetery-headstone guide that he'd printed out.
Now, van Gogh's 21st-century fans can help protect the modest headstone that commemorates the celebrated Dutch artist.
In "At Claude Cahun's Grave" (2015), Wearing's elbows rest on Cahun's headstone, supporting her shrouded, specter-like head.
He died in 1946 and is buried under a headstone in a plantation cemetery not far from that church.
Ms. Friedland never placed a headstone to mark the pair, and never joined them when she died in 1973.
Mr. Cumella called the headstone the fulfillment of a graveside promise to the spirit of Ms. Bayes last year.
But when slanted sunbeams fell on Eleanor Rigby's headstone as if on cue, I shivered a little and smiled.
Carrie and Debbie's shared huge headstone was placed over their graves earlier this week at Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Beneath a modest headstone at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat continues to draw crowds.
What would have stopped Cole from ordering Alison a headstone to stand next to their child's own resting place?
It's part reputation rehab, part art review, part commendation, and part audition for the job of Bush's headstone writer.
Many believed Flinders' remains had been lost after his headstone was removed as Euston station was expanded in the 1840s.
Next to his interment, they buried the ashes of one of "Dwight's unfinished drawings," and marked it with a headstone.
Though there was no actual graveyard or headstone to put flowers on, it was clearly a place where he resided.
While in London, the sisters took the opportunity to arrange for a headstone to be placed at their father's grave.
The headstone was completely overgrown, so it wasn't until a worker from the cemetery helped us that we found it.
Indeed, so many families were wiped out without a trace, without even the dignity of a grave and a headstone.
A headstone for John Pierre Once John Pierre and Charlotte Louisa were officially recognized, though, Sherri's work still wasn't finished.
"This is where we shot the 'Headstone' video," Zombie Juice said, referring to the first single off their latest album.
The only text displayed on the headstone below the sculpture are the women's names and the dates denoting their respective lifespans.
I know this because last October I visited the cemetery in Cornwall, New York, to find the date on his headstone.
The headstone is a new addition to the cemetery, but it isn't the first time fans have flocked to the location.
Among them, sitting up straight and dignified, one red basalt headstone somehow appeared to be in better condition than the rest.
Dust covered the white turban of the mullah who crouched over Mr. Hassan's headstone, reading from a little book of prayer.
And when Kaleb, now 12, learned that Singleton couldn't afford a headstone for K.J.'s grave, he was determined to help.
It showed the tombstone in a tile showroom, leading investigators to explore New York City for headstone makers with similar locations.
After his past came to light, the U.K. removed Savile's headstone, as well as statues and street signs that honored him.
Helping scrub Basquiat's headstone was emotional, she said, as she remembered her visit to an exhibition of his work in Switzerland.
The lack of that form was preventing the Department of Veterans Affairs from citing his Korean War service on his headstone.
One headstone-free area of First Baptist's original plot is a candidate for the final resting place of those left behind.
" She also showed her appreciation for the man who crafted the headstone, writing, "Thank you Matt Snow for doing a phenomenal job!!
The funds raised will be used to cover funeral costs including services at the funeral home, burial, and installation of a headstone.
So he drove to a hardware store, bought a can of paint, tossed it on the headstone, and snapped a few photos.
The back of the headstone was left blank, so that if the girl's true identity is discovered, her name can be added.
Returning to Russia, she cannot bear to visit her mother's headstone or see a beloved, aged aunt until the last possible moment.
Crime Scene The headstone was made in 1915 for a wife and mother named Fannie who lived to be 54 years old.
Reyes' rider asked him to help find the headstone, which had remained unmarked since his dad died in October, the driver said.
"We did everything together," Ms. Lugo said later, pointing to the headstone where her son's name had been etched in wet concrete.
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' deep mother/daughter bond is now memorialized with their massive combined headstone ... which was unveiled over the weekend.
Sonya Pfeiffer had the hubris to come to Maplewood Cemetery without an invitation to hold hands with our family [at Kathleen Peterson's headstone].
Frank Cassara, 70, a third-generation monument dealer in South Slope, Brooklyn, saw the headstone on the evening news, and said five words.
"How precious is our freedom," he said, picking up a 5-by-7 color photo of Robert J. Hess next to his headstone.
He crouched by the headstone of what was supposed to be his own grave, offering a prayer for the unknown man buried there.
The era has passed in which those who held Ted Hughes responsible for Plath's suicide would chisel her married name from her headstone.
There was no headstone, only a number, which Ahmad had memorized by heart, just as he remembered her age: 9 years, 22 days.
Everyone piled out of the Sprinter and walked in the direction of Basquiat's nondescript headstone, a popular attraction that was festooned with flowers.
" —Stacey "We take the students into a small cemetery and ask them to pick out a headstone of someone that lived during the time.
Her mother is now reportedly looking to replace her Jane Doe headstone, where she is buried in Troy, with a marker bearing her name.
AMID THE many crosses in the cemetery of the northern Italian mountain town of Bardonecchia is a freshly dug grave with an unadorned headstone.
For instance, if a young boy enjoyed playing with Hot Wheels, his family might place new Hot Wheels cars on his headstone each Christmas.
She laid a wreath, kissed the headstone — twice at the request of photographers — and recited a prayer from the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Though the headstone and sculpture were only debuted a few days ago, fans have already left flowers, tributes, and other mementos for the pair.
But what has stuck with me is the humble but powerful way that visitors to his plain headstone acknowledge his role in American history.
Standing on the grassy lawn in front of his friend's headstone, we downed shots of that Marine's favorite drink, a brand of terrible tequila.
Princess Leia's headstone -- shared with her mom, Debbie Reynolds -- was already adorned with flowers, cards and a 'Star Wars' gift bag early Thursday morning.
She found out there was no headstone on his grave in Eden Cemetery and, together with the Aaron Burr Association, she got that changed.
But for whatever reason, Mary's name was never added to the headstone under that of her husband when she died three years after him.
You can also pre-pay for cemetery expenses, such as the grave, headstone, opening and closing, outer burial container, the setting and other fees.
When asked how else she has been spending her time, she mentioned her daughter's headstone and "figuring out what to write on there," she said.
It was a headstone — a full-size, 420-pound hunk of Vermont granite that would blend in nicely in any of New York City's cemeteries.
One boy, Edris, his clothes dirty, his face chapped and snot dangling from his nose, sat astride the poor woman's headstone, rocking back and forth.
The group gathered in a semicircle around the headstone, which was engraved only with the artist's name and years of birth and death (1872-1944).
The headstone will take about 60 days to be designed, manufactured and delivered ... and we're told the target date for the unveiling is December 1.
" And from the poem "The Gravel Walks," she quotes the line that has been inscribed on his headstone: "Walk on air against your better judgment.
My mother received both of her parents' ashes when they passed, and she buried them in her front yard and made a little handmade headstone.
They also examined DNA from a jacket that was discovered under a toppled headstone, said Ms. Feigenbaum, who was kept informed as the investigation progressed.
A spokesman for the sheriff's office, Bob Harmon, said there has already been conversations about placing a headstone with Silvani's name on it at her grave.
It's definitely not the first time someone's filmed a turkey circling something: Someone caught this turkey circling a headstone in Cape Cod, Massachusetts back in 2013.
Joe DiMaggio is at Holy Cross, where his dark marble headstone this week propped up a couple of bats and two baseballs left there by fans.
Braunstein, the 91-year-old in New Jersey, found his mother's headstone was among about 100 gravesites desecrated in Philadelphia's Mount Carmel Cemetery in February 2017.
Khan straightened a small container of canary yellow mums and placed a small stone at the top of the headstone, a sign of visitation and respect.
Similarly, Mr. Carhart hopes to have a headstone made for Mr. Torriente, who he began suspecting was buried in Queens after traveling to Cuba in 2014.
Without a headstone, Ms. Bayes remained largely left off the cemetery's long lists for visitors of notables, which include Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Irving Berlin.
The "King of Hooks" also had lyrics from his "Music and Me" track emblazoned on the headstone, which also pays homage to his G-Funk Classics.
TMZ broke the story ... the same guy who gave Eazy-E's final resting place a face-lift put in some serious work on Nate Dogg's headstone.
This had been in the works since last September after Nate Dogg's family hit up Cemetery Tim to spruce up Dogg's plot with a new headstone.
Nor did he make any comment in a case involving the forced removal of a cross-shaped headstone from a cemetery in Yogyakarta, in central Java.
Mr. Bonneau identified her by matching a burial record to the age and death date on her broken headstone, from which the name had been lost.
But the old Emily isn't completely gone: she's emailed Lorelai for a get-together to see Richard's new headstone, which, after four tries, should be perfect now.
"I just lifted one (headstone) up with a guy, it's his grandfather's next to his father who was a Marine in World War II," he told WPVI.
Insurance salesmen and funeral directors hint that a "proper send-off"—a swanky coffin, a grand headstone and fancy catering—is a statement of love and respect.
Stone searched around the cemetery and discovered the headstone at a public grave that contained the remains of Victoria and 16 other people in a different spot.
On the other hand, Paul Ryan's effectiveness is so lacking that the media is already writing the tax cuts' political obituary with his name on the headstone.
On April 19443, a group of Nora Bayes enthusiasts will gather at her grave site — Sassafras Plot, Section 129 — where a simple granite headstone will be unveiled.
A Civil War captain, his body has lain in the same hill as the new grave of secrets for the last 152 years, according to his headstone.
He was buried at St. James's burial ground in 1814 but the headstone was removed in the 1840s, leaving the precise location of his grave a mystery.
Gutierrez said that so far looters have skipped over her son&aposs headstone, located for nearly a decade in a highly visible corner of Cemetery of the East.
He says the family told him that they were visiting their mother's plot over the holidays when they found that her headstone had been moved to another area.
The weekend incident in Whitefield resulted in a damaged headstone, smashed windows and sinks and the destruction of surveillance cameras, The Associated Press reported, citing Greater Manchester Police.
Eleven months after the shooting, Sharon Risher and Nadine Collier, two daughters of Ethel Lance, one of Roof's victims, couldn't even agree on a headstone for their mother.
Although several years have passed since his death, they still owe roughly $1,500 for the memorial service, and haven't been able to afford a headstone for his grave.
Driving through Ohio from his home in the Washington, D.C., area, he impulsively detoured to Munson's grave site in Canton and left a Yankees cap on the headstone.
She is buried next to her husband at Long Island National Cemetery, a veterans' graveyard in Farmingdale, N.Y. They share a single headstone, their names on either side.
"I just lifted one (headstone) up with a guy, it's his grandfather's next to his father who was a Marine in World War II," he told CNN affiliate WPVI.
Less than a mile from the City of St. Jude, the fourth of the marchers' campsites, I approached a tall, gray slab on the sidewalk that resembled a headstone.
" In the end, he said, he knew that what was important to him was that "I have a relationship with my son, and I'm not mourning at a headstone.
The myriad goods and services needed, from preparing the body for burial to funeral arrangements to carving a headstone, all represent opportunities for extortion in a largely informal market.
A headstone for an Australian marked "It is men, of my age and single, who are expected to do their duty" provides a brief insight into Australia's conscription debate.
In the meantime he&aposs fashioning a headstone out of a crystal ball that he made for his wife years ago and pieces of jade that survived the fire.
In Hager's post this weekend, she shared several photos that appeared to be from Welch's memorial service and of her joint headstone with her "great love," husband Harold Bruce.
What makes the day so special in addition to the new headstone itself is the fact that it was put on display on what would've been Eazy's 55th birthday.
The stonecutter walked along Row F of a section of Mount St. Mary Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, and stopped at Grave 108, marked with a modest gray granite headstone.
A 48-year-old woman's 1911 headstone, marked "Gone but Not Forgotten," had a tangle of vines between its new resting place and the base from which it fell.
The veteran had been a Navy Storekeeper Third Class on the USS Oklahoma, according to the National Cemetery Administration's Twitter account , which also shared a photo of Eakes&apos headstone.
We all handle death and the grief that comes with it in our own way — so creating an electronic tribute is just as valid as leaving flowers on a headstone.  
His headstone will carry his name, dates of birth and death and the inscription "Preacher of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ" above a reference to John 14:6.
That, like everything, is in service to the Message—"There's a story underneath every headstone," he sings on the standout "Immigrant Sons (Pesos & Gas)," and it rings like a mantra.
Cemetery Tim, the man behind Eazy-E's updated gravestone, tells TMZ ... Nate Dogg's family hit him up this week looking to spruce up the rapper's plot with a new headstone.
The group worked under a searing sun, soaking Mr. Basquiat's headstone with a cleaning solution and scrubbing its surface with brushes to remove moss and the wax stains from candles.
Chucky Craig lies in an unmarked grave at National Harmony Memorial Park in Landover, Md. "That's all I want to do, before I go — put a headstone there," she said.
What better way to celebrate the rancor, recriminations and perpetual volatility that is now a permanent feature of our politics than by making a government shutdown the 100-day headstone?
Karen Kelly, wife of White House chief of staff John Kelly, kisses the headstone of her son, Marine Lt. Robert Kelly, at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in Arlington, Virginia.
No. Several days later, on April 2, a break in the case arrived on the website Gothamist, which published an interview with an anonymous artist claiming responsibility for placing the headstone.
But Mr. Boetticher works with the family on the more prosaic aspects, like embalming (a recommended service because of the travel involved), headstone and coffin selection, private events and the burial.
Despite the eternal charms of William Rockefeller's mausoleum and Andrew Carnegie's ornate Celtic cross, the most-visited grave in all of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery's 90 acres is Washington Irving's simple headstone.
Last week, he was back, with the stonecutter, who laid the stencil across the headstone and used a sandblaster to carve her name into granite permanence, 37 years after her death.
"Maybe once this all plays out and she accepts this was her child, maybe she will give Baby Jane Doe a name and put a real headstone up there," he says.
Then, while burying another young woman's body, Vinnie discovers that the underage girl they buried in the same graveyard — the one who died in the parlor fire — still has no headstone.
A piece in the New York Times about the former president's book of paintings is part reputation rehab, part art review, and part audition for the job of Bush's headstone writer.
There will be no headstone, and in some counties where land is especially scarce—such as London and South Wales—the body will be buried in a communal, or "mass" grave plot.
In recent months, robbers have made off with roughly 6,000 headstone markers from the Cemetery of the East, said Nora Bracho, an opposition lawmaker who heads a congressional committee overseeing public services.
Michael Thompson, Dillinger's nephew, submitted an application to the Indiana State Department of Health for a permit to disinter the grave underneath Dillinger's headstone, according to documents obtained by CNN affiliate WXIN.
The Roman Catholic community insisted that the headstone should feature a prayer or an excerpt from scripture to help the soul through purgatory (the deceased likely did not receive their last rites).
One late autumn morning at his outdoor studio, his lead artist, covered in the white dust of sawed marble, was busy with the headstone of a 22-year-old police officer, Cmdr.
Scarborough police said Sunday they are still looking into the theft of a brass Society of Colonial Wars cross at the headstone of veteran John Fogg at Black Point Cemetery in Scarborough.
CreditCreditPete Kiehart for The New York Times SHUKHUTI, Georgia — Luka Torotadze, 216, was crouched beside his great-uncle Bitchiko's grave, wiping dust off a plump, leather ball that rested beneath the headstone.
You can see these very words on his headstone today, if you visit the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where Keats is buried not so far from fellow Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
In advance of her solo exhibition at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, the artist Sonya Blesofsky researched the gallery site and found that it had once been an open lot for a headstone business.
He is now 36, and, since then, he has spent many afternoons in Toronto at his parent's grave site, set on a noisy corner, with a shiny black headstone that reflects traffic.
She also included a picture of a head stone in the Henri-Chappelle American Cemetery and memorial in Belgium depicting a sea of crosses but also a headstone with the Star of David.
That includes an average $6,000 on goods and services from a funeral home, as well as an average $2,000 to the cemetery and another $1,000 to $2,000 for a headstone or grave marker.
All day Tuesday, local CBS News station WROC is broadcasting live on Facebook from Anthony's grave, where men and women have come to slap down their "I Voted" stickers on the activist's headstone.
So many people are flocking to the gravesite where Muhammad Ali is buried, the cemetery has put up a temporary headstone to help guide fans to the right spot ... TMZ Sports has learned.
She comes regularly to check on the headstone, which bears a portrait of her son in a jacket and tie, and offers the children a small amount to ritually sprinkle water on it.
Tracey Lane tells WHBQ-TV she recently found the casket of her grandfather, David Ira Lane Sr., lifted from the ground and the headstone in the air at a cemetery in Holly Springs.
The only thing left to do was to wipe away the red coloring from her name, already engraved on the family headstone, to signify that she had finally joined her husband and daughter.
One such headstone marks the grave of a man named James Leeson, and it has a cryptogram that, when deciphered, reads "Remember Death" — a common warning used on 18th-century headstones, Lapinski said.
You mention on the show that, in addition to people calling about the headstone, they're calling and asking you to call their friends or moms or whoever, to tell them that MLMs are bad.
Edith at least got to finish the episode on a bright note, beaming down on her love child (who, in an act of questionable taste, was cavorting with her two cousins around Sybil's headstone).
Danno was something of a Photoshop amateur, but he thought that if he could photograph Hanson standing in front of a similar background, he could then insert him into the picture beside the headstone.
Arranged throughout these pages are black-and-white photographs of paintings (like Rembrandt's "The Slaughtered Ox"), objects (like a dead relative's headstone) and people (like Urbain Martien and his wife sitting on a hillside).
An article last Sunday about an increase in visitors to the Trinity Church graveyard as a result of the popularity of the Broadway show "Hamilton" misstated one of the words on Eliza Hamilton's headstone.
This week, amid preparations for finalizing Dad's headstone and marking the first anniversary of his death, my siblings Skyped me to float the idea of each of us getting a tattoo in his honor.
Ito resumed cleaning the grave, pulling weeds and pouring water over the headstone where her name was engraved in red — the color of a living person who intended to enter that grave some day.
His grave is marked by a bronze headstone that says simply "Louis, The Brown Bomber, World Heavyweight Champion, 1937-1949," above and below an oval image of the fighter in his famous boxing stance.
Play "All I Want For Christmas Is You (Extra Festive Version)" at my wake, and observe the anniversary of my death every July by placing a wreath of red poinsettias on my headstone. Anyway.
He would rub against their legs as they placed flowers on the graves … I've seen him climb on a headstone and rub up against people during burials and help them through a very sad time.
She has been dead for 27 years, the inscription on her headstone so faded that you have to run your fingers over it to fully make out her name and the year of her death.
There are two memorials to Blake in Bunhill Fields: a squat headstone next to Defoe's soaring obelisk and a newer slab laid on the site of the mass grave where he was buried in 1827.
STYLES An article last Sunday about an increase in visitors to the Trinity Church graveyard as a result of the popularity of the Broadway show "Hamilton" misstated one of the words on Eliza Hamilton's headstone.
On some of the short plinths, in front of the headstone, people had placed lighted joss sticks that had long since burned down; only their stems remained, like the surviving bristles of an ancient toothbrush.
Residents say drug use and crime have been on the rise in recent years; Mr. Zapata, the headstone carver, dated it to roughly 2000, when slum clearance nearby led to a wave of new residents.
But I don't know if this is an etiquette issue or some ancient taboo thing that I would be violating if I chose to dig up their ashes and headstone and take them with me.
It will cost at least $450 to $500 to repair each headstone, said Naomi Adler, the chief executive of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, which is collecting online donations for the repairs and cleanup.
She saw a flier for a 'Beef 'n Beer' fundraiser for the boy's funeral costs and knew she could help—ultimately negotiating a lower price for his headstone and then pitching in with a $500 donation.
It would be morbid if it weren't so dang inspiring — there's been a non-stop stream of women stopping to pin their "I Voted" sticker on the headstone in thanks since the moment I tuned in.
Engraved on a small headstone was the name Miranda Eve, given to her by the young children who live in the house where the coffin was found and a city administrator who helped arrange the burial.
A giant block of granite originally cut for hockey, the Bradley Center is as welcoming as a headstone, and the games played there often take on the stop-and-go slovenliness of its subway-station-inspired concourses.
"There is really no work here inside the cemetery, so I taught myself how to do this in 2007," Ferdinand Zapata, 39, said as he chiseled the name of a dead man into an ornate marble headstone.
On Thursday, Basquiat was paid a more down-to-earth homage when four French volunteers arrived at his resting place in the southeast corner of the vast Brooklyn cemetery to clean the grime from his granite headstone.
As the New York Times reported, officers last month visited Brooklyn's Supreme Memorials at random; the headstone store just so happened to be the one Whiteley had visited, and its owner provided his name to the police.
Over Memorial Day, the 60-year-old who served in the Army himself, headed to Old City Cemetery in Springfield, Florida, and spent his time cleaning a headstone for captain S.L. Tibbitts, and 1st Lieutenant Joseph H. Huau.
They lined up under the yellowing bows in the graveyard, some for hours, to press their "I Voted" sticker to her headstone in tribute to Hillary Clinton, the first female candidate for president of a major political party.
As Danno tells me, as soon as he sent Hanson the photo of the burial plot, there was another request: Hanson would pay him an additional $2,000 if he threw fake blood on the headstone there and photographed it.
"Here we have Carlos Mauro Hoyos, we kidnapped him in 1988," says Mr. Velásquez, standing at the headstone of Colombia's former attorney general, explaining how Mr. Hoyos was wounded in the leg when he was ambushed and later killed.
He died in 1943 at the age of 68, the last "official visionary" of Knock, and was buried without a headstone in a communal cemetery plot owned by the Little Sisters of the Poor in Farmingdale, on Long Island.
The Givat Shaul cemetery, which sprawls across a hilltop on the northwestern edge of the city, contains more than 203,000 burial spots, and nearly every one is full, marked with a carved headstone and adorned with flowers and memorial candles.
After the baby's death, the community mourned the death of the then-anonymous baby, buying him a headstone, making handmade clothing for his funeral and burial and leaving flowers and gifts on his gravesite to this day, WGN 9 reports.
And while it seems like the world (this one and the one far, far away) isn't the same without the mother-daughter duo, the fact that the two are sharing a headstone is sure to bring tears to fans' eyes.
The effect is quite abstract, when viewed up close or at an angle, but when viewed head-on, the dot matrix resolves into a pixelated version of Lamarr's visage, mirrored on a steel plaque that will serve as a headstone.
A member of the Army 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a flag at the headstone of fallen military member during its annual Flags In ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Thursday, May 24, 2018, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Performing near Melville's granite headstone, he and the band put those interests front and center, tearing through a handful of rugged old sea chanteys, like "Haul in the Bowline," and a few turbulent anthems by the 1960s free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler.
"The dead are taking so much more space than those who are still alive, as those buried use that piece of land for many years," said Yuen, as he manipulated his mobile telephone to correctly position a candle in front of a virtual headstone.
"It sometimes happens that a group that has some connection with the deceased will contact descendants for permission to install a headstone," when a grave was unmarked, says Tammi Prysiazny, manager of Green Mount Cemetery, via email, who was there when the new stone was installed.
The unveiling of E's new headstone went down Saturday at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Whittier, CA -- where his kids, friends, fam and die-hard fans came out to show the world a newly commissioned engraving that was way more decked out than his OG slab.
In June her unmarked grave in Providence finally received a headstone to mark the 150th anniversary of her birth, with money provided by a GoFundMe campaign spearheaded by Lee, her biographer, and Stages of Freedom, a Providence nonprofit that held three days of events about her life.
New headstone Bond was initially buried in an unmarked grave, but in 2007 a group of Ouija enthusiasts, led by founder and Chairman of the Talking Board Historical Society and world renowned Ouija collector Robert Murch, worked with the cemetery to put the new stone up in Bond's honor.
According to the Press-Herald, this isn't the first time PETA has tried to get granite memorials for non-human crash victims, including "hundreds of fish" in Irvine, California; "hundreds of terrified turkeys" in Sioux City, Iowa; and a proposed five-foot granite headstone to memorialize Nebraskan hogs headed to slaughter.
Whimsically nicknamed "Blood Cemetery" because of Abel and Betsy Blood's tombstones, Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, New Hampshire, is home to one unusually specific phenomenon, among the other run-of-the-mill ghost stuff like floating orbs: There's a hand carved into Abel's headstone, its index finger pointing to heaven.
Two images define art collector, socialite, and muse Peggy Guggenheim for me: the headstone of the 14 beloved dogs she had buried beside her, and the enormous dollhouse she had as a child, full of mini bearskin rugs and ivory furniture, which she kept locked and allowed nobody to touch.
In the six years since my father died, I've visited the cemetery where his ashes are interred exactly twice—the second time only because of the Jewish tradition of unveiling, where the initial graveside funeral service is followed within a year by a  ceremony to uncover and dedicate the headstone.
Just hours after the shooting in El Paso, McConnell's official campaign tweeted a photo of a mock graveyard that included a headstone of his opponent, with the caption "The Grim Reaper of Socialism"—a self-congratulating allusion to his reputation as an obstructionist who subverts the Democratic process by killing bills.
Other additions include a feather, potted plant, rock, wood, hut, pickup truck, roller skate, magic wand, piñata, nesting dolls, sewing needle, knot, flip flop, military helmet, accordion, long drum, coin, boomerang, carpentry saw, screwdriver, hook, ladder, elevator, mirror, window, plunger, mousetrap, bucket, toothbrush, headstone, placard, transgender symbol, transgender flag, anatomical heart and lungs.
Trump tweeted about the NFL and player protests...again President Trump appears set to adopt the fix-it approach before the October 15 certification deadline, and he has found some unlikely Capitol Hill allies who until recently were eagerly awaiting the death of the deal, having already dug the proverbial hole and purchased the headstone.
The person who erected it in the first place has not come forward to claim responsibility, but whoever he or she is likely sunk a lot of money into it, as the custom-made headstone resembles the standard granite ones that fill New York City's crowded cemeteries and cost at least a few hundred dollars apiece.
In his book, he describes his son's headstone as "a slab of white marble with soft streaks the color of wood smoke" that has "a star nestled in a crescent moon" etched above his name, date of birth and date of death, the medals he received and the conflict in which he was killed: Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Other notable items include a copy of the unreleased Faust record, headstone props for Biggie, Tupac, and Nas from a video, a copy of Bob Dylan's unreleased novel Tarantula, The Shaggs business cards, a zine from 1978 where Debbie Harry discussed abortion and sex education and other beautiful and rare items you didn't even know existed.

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