indicates that at the time Cedar Grove opened it was not owned/operated by Notre Dame and they did not have perpetual care. Highland had been open longer and the fee there did include perpetual care.
I'm presuming that Cedar Grove was a Catholic cemetery since opening - if the reasoning in the article is accurate, I'm surprised that perpetual care wasn't a part of the fee structure from the beginning.
and buying Rock's old spot out in Highland Cemetery instead. Slightly used space - deep discount.
Otherwise I’d be all about saving cash.
Rockne should have been buried at Cedar Grove at Notre Dame's perpetual expense in 1931.
(This question is premised on my memory being correct that your father was one of my NDLS professors. If I am misremembering I apologize.)
My second wife has a plot there due to him. I will be buried with both of my wives. Pray for me!
His will prescribed the distribution among the children.
So far he and mom and my sister are there.
We also have about a dozen other family members scattered around.
Spooky. A submariner poltergeist.
He didn’t know that when he secured his spot.
And I don’t think he knew before he passed.