Autumn 2011 - Grove Hill Cemetery

Grove Hill NEWS
Volume 1, Issue 2
Autumn 2011
A Semiannual Publication for Friends of Grove Hill Cemetery
It’s All About Our Friends
In October Friends of Grove
Hill (FGH) celebrates its first year
as an auxiliary agent of the Grove
Hill Cemetery board. With a little
tooting of our own celebratory
horns, we can say its been a grand
beginning.
We’ve also conducted a most
successful monument restoration
workshop that has resulted in the
preservation of several of the
stones that had fallen to the wears
of time. (Additional workshops are
noted on page 2 of this newsletter.)
Thanks to the talents of Duanne
Puckett and Mike Harrod we’ve
enjoyed three successful tours of
Grove Hill which nearly 100 people have attended. (Our popular
wine and cheese tour is on the calendar again for October 18th, see
page 2.) The tours introduce attendees to Grove Hill residents
whose names and fame live on
through the stories of their lives.
FGH has also received some
most appreciated (tax deductible)
donations that helped us with the
purchase of new trees and plantings
and will help us in the future with
the upgrade of the chapel.
These photos give
you before and
We need more members and
hope you will consider being a
Friend of Grove Hill. Annual to
lifetime memberships are available.
after views of
stone restoration
work on three of
the monuments
Friends’ Forum, Grove Hill News
This is the second edition of
Grove Hill News. If you are currently a pledged Friend of Grove
Hill (FGH), you will continue to
receive this spring & autumn publication. Active Friends of Grove
Hill are listed below. To become a
Friend at the commitment level
attractive to you, please call
Duanne Puckett, 502-633-5959
or Bonnie Burks Gray, 502-6336941. FGH commitment information is also available on our
website:
www.grovehillcemetery.net or
visit: www.facebook.com/pages/
Grove-Hill-CemeteryFriends/228711343816143.
Thank you — Friends of Grove Hill
James Vance Burnett
Charles & Lucy Long
James & Linda Clemmons,
Duanne Puckett
Deborah Estill
Rosella Davis Rogers
Bonnie Burks & Whitie Gray
Mary Hardin Davis Stevens
Gay Guthrie
Michael Wade Harrod
Ted Igleheart
Any errors please notify through
those listed above, thank you.
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GROVE HILL
Friends of Grove Hill
Monument Restoration Training & Workshop
September
September 24th & 25th—Two Day Training Event
Learn how to preserve and restore stones, do genealogical
rubbings safely, earn an apprentice certification and enjoy making a difference. Saturday 9:00 AM until we’re tired; Sunday
1:30 PM until we’re tired. Registration: individuals $60; couples
$35; youths $15, age 10 or older; certified apprentices $10.
Fees include Saturday lunch and beginners’ materials. Reservations, contact: Bonnie Burks Gray, 502-633-6941 or
bawg@bawg.biz. Deadline: Noon, September 21st.
Bird Watch with Horace Brown
Saturday, October 8th—starting at the Chapel at 8:30 AM.
Wear your walking shoes, bring your binoculars and enjoy
identifying birds and trees as you explore Gove Hill Cemetery.
Duanne Puckett
2nd Annual Grove Hill Tour with Wine & Cheese —
New Tour Sites, Same Great Fun
Hosted by Mike Harrod &/or
New Tours For Each Event
October
Tuesday, October 18th, 5:30 PM—Starting at the Chapel
Tastings feature wines or juice by Talon Winery & cheese from
Cloverdale Creamery. Refreshments & tour, suggested donation: individuals $15; couples $20; families $25. Reservations
are not necessary but a nose count helps. Contact Bonnie
Burks Gray, 502-633-6941 or bawg@bawg.biz.
November
Assisted Living
Facilities
Welcomed
Sore Knees Tour—A Sit Down Give-A-Show
Tuesday, November 15th, 2:00 PM in the Chapel. Duanne
Puckett & Mike Harrod present biographies of some of the historic figures who rest in Grove Hill. Reservations for available
seating, contact: Bonnie Burks Gray, 502-633-6941 or
bawg@bawg.biz. Donations welcomed.
Tentative 2012 Schedule:
2012
Cabin Fever Tour—Saturday, February 4, 10:30 AM
Monument Restoration Training—April 21st & 22nd
2012 Additional Events & Details To Be Announced
Check Our Website www.grovehillcemetery.net or
visit: www.facebook.com/pages/Grove-Hill-CemeteryFriends/228711343816143
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Friends Photo Gallery Spring/Summer 2011
Above:
Before Restoration
Below: After
Mike Harrod, upper left, and Gay
Guthrie, work diligently to restore a
footstone broken from the foundation.
The process takes several steps:
cleaning the stone especially at the
break; straightening the foundation;
attaching & stabilizing the broken
pieces.
Friends of Grove Hill Cemetery are adopting family plots without ancestors to restore and preserve stones that have succumbed to the ravages of time. Descendants whose family plots have stones that need
repair can commission certified preservationists to restore their monuments. A donation to Friends of Grove Hill plus the cost of materials can
preserve even broken monuments. Training workshops to learn how to
preserve monuments are offered in September 2011 and 2012. Use the
training to preserve stones in Grove Hill or a family plot elsewhere.
All Friends of Grove Hill donations are tax deductible.
Invite A Friend & Become A Friend of Grove Hill
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Friends of Grove Hill
458 Mt. Eden Road
Shelbyville, KY 40065
Phone: 502-633-2750
Fax: 502-633-259 E-mail:
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Friends of Grove Hill Heroes
Friends of Grove Hill (FGH) recognizes this season’s heroes: attendees of our summer monument restoration workshop:
(l-r) Mark Brooks, Linda Clemmons, Lucy Long, Ann Johnson, Robert Spencer, Robin Barmore, Arlene Redinger, Whitie Gray,
Bonnie Burks Gray, Gay Guthrie, Mike Harrod, Vance Burnett, Debbie Harrod, Duanne Puckett, Charles Long.
Not pictured: John & Carla Gerding, and Don Bentley.
Superheroes are:
Gay Guthrie, Mike
Harrod, and Whitie
Gray who have completed restoration of
several stones.
Families whose ancestors’ stones are in
need of repair are legally responsible to
maintain them. A minimal donation to FGH
to cover tools and materials will restore
monuments for future
generations to appreciate. To learn more
contact Whitie Gray,
502-633-6941.