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Family engraves dad’s headstone with an explicit catchphrase — and people are offended

Steve "Stevie" Owens loved coaching sports, spending time by the lake and drinking stiff whiskey. He was also a sarcastic wisecracker with a go-to retort: "F--- off." So when the 59-year-old ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In national cemeteries, inscriptions on headstones are fading

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cub Scout Lucas Kenniston,7, with Pack 169 out of Assumption Church places flags in front of headstones at Jefferson Barracks ...
Los Angeles Times

Headstone Carvers Find Ages of the Fallen Hard to Take at Times

BARRE, Vt. — In a cavernous factory in central Vermont, it fell to Ben Smith to render the final honor for Michael Yury Tarlavsky. The Army captain’s father and grandfather had been soldiers in Russia ...
The Northern Echo

Grave work - recording a cemetery's headstones

VOLUNTEERS have begun work on the mammoth project of recording all the memorial headstone inscriptions in a cemetery that dates back more than 150 years. The project at the cemetery in Norton, near ...