Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

Frenchy Spradling, a young sailor from Chaffee, Missouri, lost his life in Typhoon Cobra during WWII. His legacy lives on ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Several families are frustrated after finding out that flowers and offerings they had left at loved ones' graves had been ...

During the mowing season in Greenwood Cemetery, flowers, floral arrangements, or ornaments of any kind are only allowed in the containers that are attached to the marker base and provided for that ...

The annual Memorial Day "Flower Drop" takes place at 1 p.m. — the event begins earlier, at 10 in the morning — with the ...

In this week's Gardening Update, Carol talks about some of the drought-resistant flowers to place on memorials this weekend.

A resident who attended a friend's funeral was shocked to find a homeless man sleeping in one of the graves. Johder Yuboc accompanied his pal to check the final resting place of his departed aunt when ...

Vandalism at a cemetery in Liverpool has been branded "disgusting" after video footage showing gravestone pots and flowers "strewn about everywhere" was widely shared online. The destruction was ...

She was a past board member of the Monroe County Transit Authority, Pocono Jackson Joint Water Authority, the Pocono Township Planning Commission and the Tannersville Union Cemetery Association.

1st Class Andrew Jay has been dutifully guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery ... the public is invited to leave flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ...

Two newly identified species of flowering plant, Begonia, have been discovered in one of Davao Oriental’s rich biodiversity ...