CARE ENDOWMENT
All lots in Mount Olivet Cemetery receive General Care, which includes maintenance such as grass cutting and trimming. However, you can arrange for additional services on your lot such as monument protection, special plantings and decorative floral arrangements.
SPECIAL CARE
The General Care assumed by Mount Olivet Cemetery does not include extensive maintenance, repair or replacement of any memorial/monument placed or erected upon lots; nor the doing of any special or unusual work in the cemetery. However, arrangements can be made with cemetery management for Special Care of monuments and lots. This one-time fee of $1,000 is deposited into a perpetual fund and allows for a monument to be cleaned and fully repaired or replaced when necessitated.
SPECIAL CARE
The General Care assumed by Mount Olivet Cemetery does not include extensive maintenance, repair or replacement of any memorial/monument placed or erected upon lots; nor the doing of any special or unusual work in the cemetery. However, arrangements can be made with cemetery management for Special Care of monuments and lots. This one-time fee of $1,000 is deposited into a perpetual fund and allows for a monument to be cleaned and fully repaired or replaced when necessitated.
ENDOWED CARE
Those lots possessing special care status are eligible for Endowed Care (also known as annual care). Here the grave site is afforded special options like the planting of trees, shrubs, ground cover, flowerbeds, monument cleaning, and yearly placement of Christmas wreaths, Easter mums, and baskets of cut flowers on holidays such as Memorial Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day. Other special occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries can be commemorated as well.
With the establishment of an endowment, the Cemetery will hold and invest the principal sum deposited by the lot owner and use the annual income there from to defray the cost of such special care.
Those lots possessing special care status are eligible for Endowed Care (also known as annual care). Here the grave site is afforded special options like the planting of trees, shrubs, ground cover, flowerbeds, monument cleaning, and yearly placement of Christmas wreaths, Easter mums, and baskets of cut flowers on holidays such as Memorial Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day. Other special occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries can be commemorated as well.
With the establishment of an endowment, the Cemetery will hold and invest the principal sum deposited by the lot owner and use the annual income there from to defray the cost of such special care.
PRESERVATION CARE
Time and weather regularly take their toll on the monuments, markers and crypts of any cemetery. Once stately monuments erode and crumble. Marble and granite gravestones will stain and change color from pearly white to dark gray or black. Tombstones sag, sink or topple over thanks to ground fluctuations due to the collapse of early brick walled vaults, groundhogs and settling based on seasonal changes in temperatures and precipitation (rain, snow). And then there's wind, falling tree limbs, vandalism or accidental mower strikes that damage ornamental and standard markers alike. In these situations, who is responsible for making a repair or restoration? This is especially important when there is nobody to claim the lot especially in situations where a specific family moved from the area or "died out" decades ago.
That's why a Preservation and Enhancement Fund has been established for Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Time and weather regularly take their toll on the monuments, markers and crypts of any cemetery. Once stately monuments erode and crumble. Marble and granite gravestones will stain and change color from pearly white to dark gray or black. Tombstones sag, sink or topple over thanks to ground fluctuations due to the collapse of early brick walled vaults, groundhogs and settling based on seasonal changes in temperatures and precipitation (rain, snow). And then there's wind, falling tree limbs, vandalism or accidental mower strikes that damage ornamental and standard markers alike. In these situations, who is responsible for making a repair or restoration? This is especially important when there is nobody to claim the lot especially in situations where a specific family moved from the area or "died out" decades ago.
That's why a Preservation and Enhancement Fund has been established for Mount Olivet Cemetery.