CANDID PHOTOS of our 1994-1997 Cemetery Restoration volunteers...snapped as they labored.
This webpage is "under construction."
(More personal names are being added daily to the captions below the below pics.)




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. . . 9/24/1994: First official NPCA meeting, NB Bank Star One. Pic #2: Thelma McKim. #4: John Wallace, Hillary Thomas, Roy Carrington, Vernon Walther, Aubrey Gray.


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. . . Pic #2: Lorene Walther, Peggy Phillips, Irene Gray Thompson, Thelma McKim, Evelyn Conrad, Geneva Wallace. #3: Straightened by Vernon, Lorene, Bill Snow, John Wallace.


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. . . Pic #1: Our cemetery a/o June 1995 . . . . #2: Lorene Walther fitting a broken corner. . . . #3: Lorene, now working her spade. . . . . . #4: End-results of her spade-work.


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Pics #1-4: Bobby Thompson and Vernon Walther straighening tombstones.



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. . . . Pic #1: Stones leaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #2: Stones after straightening. . . . . . . . . . And views a month earlier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #4: Vernon Walther repairing a stone.


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. . . . Pic #1: Vernon resetting that stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pics #2-4: A few within-cemetery views, ca. June 1995.


Straightening/resetting stones: (next twenty pics).

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. . . Pic #1: Aubrey Gray, Vernon Walther, Bill Snow. .#2: Vernon and Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . #3: Aubrey, Jessie Snow, Vernon, Bill . . . . #4: Lorene Walther.


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. . . Pic #1: Aubrey Gray / Lorene Walther . . . . . . . . . . . . #2 & #3: Some of the stones being repaired. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pic #4: Lorene.


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. . . Pic #1:"Had to fix twice! Concrete wouldn't hold." . . #2: Much clean-up in sight yet . . . #3: Vernon and Lorene Walther. . . . . . . . . #4: Top piece fell on Lorene earlier!


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. . . Pic #1: Took blocks to straighten this one. . . #2: Vernon spraying sprouts. . . . . . . . . . #3 & #4 above, and next 3 pics: Vernon and Lorene repairing fallen tombstones.


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. . . Pic #1: Vernon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #2: Lorene, working top of stone. . . . . . . . #3: Vernon setting the stone. . . . . . . . . . . . #4: Bill Snow & daughter Dianne.


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. . . Pic #1: Bill Snow,Aubrey Gray,Vernon W,Irene Gray Thompson. . #2: Bill; Billy Gray; Irene. . .#3: Lorene Walther, tailgate cook . . . . #4: Irene, Lorene, Aubrey, Bill.


Putting fence in, at right of cemetery gate.

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. . . Pic #1: Lorene Walther & Bill Snow. . . . . #2: John Gray, Bill, Vernon (kneeling over). . . #3 & 4: Our gate (donated 1995 by NPCA's treasured Treasurer, Roy Carrington).


The "Back Fence" Project (next seven pics).

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. . . Pic #1: Lorene Walther, hard at work (again). . . #2: Vernon, wheelbarrow pusher. . . . . . . . #3: Lorene & Bill Snow. . . . . . . . . . . . . #4: Aubrey Gray & Lorene Walther.

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Pic #1: Lorene Walther. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #2: Vernon Walther. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #3: TA-DA ! Results...a finished, straight backfence!



Vernon Walther & Bill Snow...working to correct a tough one (next five pics).

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The "Roadside Fence" Project (next six pics).

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. . . Pic #1: Roadside fence being planned. . #2: Irene Gray Thompson, sitting on stone. . #3: Bill Snow, Aubrey Gray, Lorene Walther. . . #4: Roadside fencework in progress.

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Pic #1: Vernon, Bill Snow, Aubrey Gray. . #2: Vernon, Hillary Thomas, Aubrey.


Aubrey Gray and Vernon Walther, taking out a broken stone.


. . . Pic #1: Aubrey Gray, making a support platform for the stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #3: Vernon and Aubrey. . . . . . . . . . . . #4: Aubrey straightening a stone.




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Pic #1: Final touches: Hillary Thomas & Aubrey Gray, seeding and strawing all bare-dirt areas. #2: Mowing volunteers: Joe Jones, Nellie (Gray) Jones, Bobby Thompson, Vernon Walther, Bill Snow, Robert Gray, Aubrey Gray. #3: Lorene Walther, Joe Jones, Bobby Thompson, Billy Gray, Vernon Walther, Robert Gray, Aubrey Gray.



Below pics document a few of the many clean-up "maintenance chores" done in years since our initial "restoring-cemetery" years.

Following five pics, ICE STORM of December 2007 (clean-up, Jan 2008).


Pic #1: Just after the ice storm. . . . #2: Robert Gray, and... #3: Jim Fleming...pulling brush to a pile in far-corner. Vernon Walther also was pulling brush then.


Pic #1: Burning the many limbs. #2: Reduced 30-foot high brushpile into two cans of ashes!
Ice storm clean-up was 3 work-sessions: 1. Buzz-sawing hanging/fallen limbs; 2. Dragging limbs to corner of cemetery; 3. After next snow-fall, torching brush-pile safely.



Straightening our beginning-to-lean roadside fence before/after pics, (done summer 2010 by Vernon Walther).





Our wonder-dog, Shelby. She lives with her humans Warren & Mona Lester, our good neighbors across the road. Shelby guards our gate and our folks at rest therein...24/7!


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(Music: Rodrigo's 1939 "Concierto de Aranjuez" for guitar/orch)

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