Cemetery Board praised for good work

To The Eagle:

Every Memorial Day we expect to find our cemetery freshly mowed and trimmed, clean and tidy for us to decorate the graves of loved ones. It has been so for a long time and I can remember without disappointment.

My mom remembered much different Memorial Days. After morning farm chores, they loaded scythes, rakes, shovels etc., kids, lunch and flowers into a neighbor’s fish boat and set off for town. (There was no bridge to Puget Island before 1939.) They walked up from the town float and along the dirt road to the cemetery. Once there, they hacked their way in through blackberries and bramble to find their family’s graves. It took all day. Then they walked back in time to do home chores. They would do it again and again in following years. The stories were much the same for those whose families were buried in Westport.

Thank you to our cemetery board for a job so very well done and so appreciated.

Kayrene Gilbertsen

Cathlamet