CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS (WSIL) -- Despite the weekend's wet weather, students braved the rain to clean headstones at a local cemetery. Â
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(WSIL) --Â Honor Wreaths for Veterans still needs 250 vets sponsored in the Carterville cemetery.Â
KING GEORGE, Va. (AP) � Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation’s capital that were used as erosion control along a Virginia shoreline are being relocated to a Maryland memorial garden. Officials marked the transfer of the first 55 headstones to Maryland on Monday. They’ll be part of a memorial
(CNN) � The government’s COVID-19 funeral assistance program has distributed more than $1 Billion. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it has helped some 150,000 people since April. The government reimburses up to $9,000 for each COVID-19 victim. It covers transferring remains, burial plots, caskets, clergy services, cremation and headstones. FEMA says it still
CARBONDALE, IL (WSIL) � Castle Perilous Games & Books presented the City of Carbondale with Memorial Day donations to help with repairs in Woodlawn Cemetery.
PERRY COUNTY (WSIL) � A mystery covering more than two decades still weighs on a community in Perry County, where the body of newborn girl was found by two fishermen, with no clues as to her identity.
Several headstones were damaged over the weekend at Casper Church Cemetery in Union County.