gravestone
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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
“We’re now left with a gravestone that’s in multiple pieces,” she added.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
The first Vincent was always there, in the family history and on the gravestone in the churchyard right next door:
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
A ragtag online group, the “Grave Marker Recovery Team,” hunts down gravestones that have been stolen, typically to sell at antique shows as accents for upscale decorating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Maintenance of gravestones and monuments in Parisian cemeteries are the responsibility of families - not the city.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
If you’re looking to go big on your decor, skeletons, gravestones and inflatables are perfect to transform your home into a real-life haunted house.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
But when I go to these cemeteries and take pictures of the gravestones, I’m not usually scared.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Listening to the rain plinking against the gravestones, I stared at our tarp roof that was swaying in the strengthening wind.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
