Memories
Karl Erik Bennett Memorial Karl was autistic/savant and was a master at assembling all kinds of puzzles. All the pieces in the design were drawn to fit together and they represent Karl’s uniqueness. On each piece are the things Karl loved: weight lifting, prime numbers (1009 & 967), building things, playing the guitar and...
Tombstone Tour 2009
Part 1 Taipei
Our Headstone, Monument and Memorial tour through Asia began in Taipei, Taiwan in late February of this year. Fellow travelers John Provines, AICA and Leland Longstreth, AICA met me at the Narita Airport in Japan where we caught a flight to Taipei. After the 10+ hour flight to Narita the 4 hour flight to Taiwan was a breeze for me.
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We arrived in Manila, and were excited to tour the Philippine and Filipino memorials, monuments and Philippine and Filipino headstones. Manila, only about 750 miles by air away from Taipei is much warmer and also more humid. The Philippine Islands are comprised of over 7,000 islands and are home to several ethnic groups. The original inhabitants settled via land bridges from Asia over 30,...
Now the Headstone, Monument and Memorial tour through Asia heads to Vietnam. We are excited to see Vietnamese monuments, headstones and memorials and view custom Vietnamese headstones and monuments. Ho Chi Minh City is the largest Metro area in Vietnam. There are about 9 million people in this rapidly growing city and projections are that by 2020 there will be 20 million people living there...
Continuing on in the Vietnamese cemetery, touring Vietnamese headstones, memorials and monuments we wish to share some of the spectacular memorials here outside of Ho Chi Minh City.
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Located outside of town on our Asian headstone tour in Vietnam is a headstone memorial and headstone monument shop. We were given a great tour of a Vietnamese cemetery featuring wonderful photos of headstone memorials we can share.
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Quiring Monuments is proud to be the custom memorial company working with the community to honor Timothy Brenton.
The memorial design consists of a stone shield with Officer Brenton's badge number surrounded with stone planks featuring engraved messages from Officer Brenton's family. A tall tree at the proposed site is meant to represent Officer Brenton's life, with weaving...
I remember when Michael and I would stay the night and we got to draw straws to see who got to sleep in which bedroom. The yellow room or shag carpet room. Uncle Joeys room was the one we always wanted. Grandma would make sloppy joes for dinner and when we wake up its Honey Nut Cherios. Yumm Yumm.
A few times a month going over to Grandma's to eat BJ pizza and watch CSI! Mom and Michael would be there Uncle Joey and Aunt Priss would show up, then Dad would come after work. I always looked foward going over for dinner good food, good laughs and great memories. So heres to you Grandma my next yummy BJ pizza and everyone after that will rememind me of you!
