Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, brings back memories. In my youth, Decoration Day was always celebrated on May 30 (until 1968). Since then, it is now observed on the last Monday in May.
Decoration Day always started out for my family by a visit to Trinity Cemetery to visit the Crotty graves. I remember my mother telling me about her father being in the Spanish American War. The family urn was there (Richie has this now) and I remember it always being filled with geraniums. My mother would then tell me that the cemetery bench that we had at our house was originally at the cemetery. This bench now resides in Houston. She then told me that it was considered an "outing" when she was a kid to go to the cemetery, place flowers, and neaten up the grave sites.
As a kid, the day progressed to a family picnic at Turnwald. It also symbolized the beginning of summer, even though we had more school before the end of the year.
It always made me proud to see a flag on my grandfather's grave...still does.
CROTTY 15 - Click below for slide show
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I don't remember ever visiting the Crotty grave site as a kid, but everytime we'd drive by on 8th & Peninsula, mom would say that that's where mama and papa are buried. Here are the people, their age and the date of burial.
David Crotty (29) 12/12/1876, P. Crotty (?) 12/13/1876, Anna Smith (?) 09/20/1910, Michael Smith (66) 12/22/1914, Lucy Smith (91) 10/09/1929, Mary Barber (0) 01/19/1939, Elizabeth Barber (0) 03/25/1940, Albert Barber (0) 03/25/1940, Julia Crotty (74) 09/07/1950, Richard Crotty (75) 04/26/1950, Pierre Crotty (53)02/12/1963, Helen Crotty (77) 01/27/1987
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