Gravestone Cleaning Service of Northeast Iowa

03/23/2024

03/23/2024

03/19/2024

Atlas Preservation of Southington, 20 miles south of Hartford, recently posted the winners of the latest edition of their online headstone restoration contest, which kicked off in the summer of

12/10/2022

One week until National Wreaths Across America Day 2022!

07/28/2020

This is going to be a FUN day!! See you there!

12/15/2019

05/25/2019

On Memorial Day many people attend cemeteries to decorate the graves of those fallen in service to their country.

Decoration Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the Harbor
Decoration Day

SLEEP, comrades, sleep and rest
On this Field of the Grounded Arms,
Where foes no more mo**st,
Nor sentry’s shot alarms!

Ye have slept on the ground before, 5
And started to your feet
At the cannon’s sudden roar,
Or the drum’s redoubling beat.

But in this camp of Death
No sound your slumber breaks; 10
Here is no fevered breath,
No wound that bleeds and aches.

All is repose and peace,
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease, 15
It is the truce of God!

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free. 20

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
From bartleby.com

02/14/2019

It was an honor to be able to participate in the Wreaths Across America ceremony in Preston, MN, in December. And doing with two great people made it even better!!