headstone

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Not included: “A headstone or any other permanent memorial,” the site adds.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

After his dilapidated grave was discovered in Ramsgate, a campaign to restore his resting place has culminated in a small headstone with the Wimbledon logo on it being erected to celebrate his success.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

The widow of entertainer Roy Hudd has praised the "fantastic" theatre poster-style headstone placed at his grave.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

The circumstances of the child’s death are eventually established as being bizarre and farcical, and along with a recurring gag involving the epitaph on her little headstone, it’s all supposed to be hilarious.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2022

Nearby lay a rectangular cairn - hundreds of stones piled in the shape of an oversized grave with a granite obelisk for a headstone.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan