Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA June 6, 2012

Here are a few pictures and 360 videos from Laurel Hill Cemetery in Erie, PA. The descriptive lines above the items indicate whose graves are in them.

The streaking on the stones is water; Dee Dee is cleaning off the bird droppings.

(Note that there is a Cairns very close to Thomas and Geneva Cairns. That Cairns is not related to us as far as we know. Dad is in Lot 17. He’s one of the first ones on that side of the street.)[1]

Thomas Cairns and Geneva Cairns (nee Bauer) Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-33-52_73 (my Grandma and Grandpa; Dad’s parents)

Dee Dee at Susy Bierer (nee Andrews)  Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-32-57_929 (Aunt Berniece’s daughter, Mom’s niece)

 

Dee Dee at Susy Bierer (nee Andrews)  Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-32-54_163

 

 

 

Dee Dee at Susy Bierer (nee Andrews)  Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-32-51_898

 

 

Dee Dee at LaVerne E Grandy and Ethel Grandy (nee Damon) Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-21-22_305 (my Grandma and Grandpa, Mom’s parents)

 

Dee Dee at LaVerne E Grandy and Ethel Grandy (nee Damon) Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-21-20_156

 

Dee Dee at LaVerne E Grandy and Ethel Grandy (nee Damon) Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-21-16_834

 

Dee Dee at LaVerne E Grandy and Ethel Grandy (nee Damon) Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-21-12_62

 

Dee Dee at Charles W Cairns Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-07-26_304 (Dad)

Dee Dee and Dad at Charles W Cairns Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-04-22_257

 

Dee Dee at Charles W Cairns Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-03-01_484

 

Dee Dee at Charles W Cairns Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-02-59_491

 

Dee Dee at Charles W Cairns Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-02-57_507

Dee Dee at Charles W Cairns Laurel Hill Cemetery Erie PA 2012-06-09_11-02-48_804

Laurel Hill Cemetery 360 degrees - Erie PA - Cairns, Bierer, and Andrews

Laurel Hill Cemetery 360 degrees - Erie PA - Charles Cairns

[1]
Years ago my Grandpa and Grandma Grandy took me to a cemetery in Corry, PA where some of their family is buried. I was very young, but already writing. When we got home, I wrote down the name of the cemetery and directions on how to find the stones we visited. We may have even visited two cemeteries. I vaguely recall additional driving. I’ve since lost what I wrote. In fact, I’ve lost all the journals I kept as a boy. They were mostly boyish nonsense, but I’m sad I’ve lost the occasional records of events like that.

I’ve kept electronic notes, letters, and emails since the advent of computers, and one day I’ll bundle it up and hand it over to one or more of my family, one day hopefully very far away. If you wrote to me or I wrote to you, I likely still  have it. And of course, since digital cameras arrived, I’ve been squirreling way pictures and video, as most of us do. I’m good at organizing correspondence, but gong through all those images and video, that will be work.

A quick story: My Grandpa Grandy (LaVerne E Grandy) remembers going to the cemetery with his father. Grandpa’s father looked at his father’s grave and said, “I hated that man.” Grandpa was very young when that happened, and we don’t know to this day why my great grandpa would say that about his own father in front of his son.

Started: 2012-06-13