Kent County MI Archives Photo Place.....Lithuanian Freedom Cemetery April 31, 2017
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Robyn Otten-Sturtevant Rbnstrtvnt@aol.com July 12, 2017, 11:24 pm

Source:             Lithuanian Freedom Cemetery
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                            at the entrance 

                           RED BRICK COLUMN
                           WITH PLAQUE THAT
                               STATES: 
                       LITHUANIAN FREEDOM CEMETERY

                                


Additional Comments:
I was there in the spring. There were full size Christmas trees and bags of 
leaking garbage by the back building. Liqueur bottles among the tombstones. and 
signs that some tombstones were dragged of their bases. old tree branches 
littered the cemetery. Some flat stones were so full of rotted leaves you 
couldn't see them. Some stones are now part of overgrown bushes or covered by 
dirt, sometimes an inch deep. Tombstones are stained and should be cleaned. 
Trees should be cut back a little to let more sun in. There is no comparison to 
the Ahavas Jewish Cemetery right next to it. If that cemetery can be so well 
kept I see no reason the Lithuanian cemetery shouldn't be. I will visit again 
this summer to see if anything has changed.

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