Memory Garden Cemetery Essay Paper
I have chosen Memory Garden Cemetery because is one of the nicest cemetery here in Baytown. I have lots of friends and love ones buried here and every time I turn around their adding more to the cemetery. They have a beautiful landscaping and just when you drive in you feel this peace and how clean the cemetery is all over.
I would like to share a little more about the history of Memory Garden Cemetery it’s been around for years. James Bradshaw Earthman, Sr. was a blacksmith and livery service provider in Taylor, Texas. The town of Taylor purchased a horse-drawn hearse, and as proprietor of the livery stable, Earthman was frequently asked by the townspeople to assist with their funeral needs. Beginning in 1889, providing funeral services became James B. Earthman’s full-time profession. In 1904, Mr. Earthman and his friend, railroad surveyor J.C. McCarty, moved to Houston and established the Earthman and McCarty Undertaking Company. The company prospered and in 1924 after McCarty’s death, the company became the J.B. Earthman Company. After James B. Earthman Sr.’s death in 1931, James B. Earthman Jr. ("J.B.”), a graduate of St. Thomas High School and Rice University, left his successful architectural career to manage the company. James B. Earthman Sr. his wife, Blanche Bastian Earthman, worked with J.B. in the daily operation of the business and was one of the first women in Texas to become a licensed funeral director. J.B. was a pioneer in advanced funeral planning, founding a burial insurance company in the 1930s. Together, J.B. and Blanche built Earthman Funeral Directors & Cemeteries into one of the largest family-owned and operated funeral companies in the United States. Their children and grandchildren continued to manage and expand the business further with new locations throughout the community. James B. Earthman, Sr. began with a commitment to a high standard of service, and throughout our history we’ve continued to lead and innovate while maintaining that high standard. Everyone at Earthman Funeral Directors & Cemeteries is proud to uphold his heritage and commitment to our community.
The Earthman family and their funeral homes and cemeteries have been providing funeral, cemetery, and cremation services for Houston and Baytown, Texas, since 1889. Throughout the years, we’ve maintained our commitment to our client families while responding to the changing needs of our community. They’re proud to be members of the Dignity Memorial network of more than 1,600 funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers. When you choose a Dignity Memorial provider, you not only receive the compassionate care you expect from a locally operated establishment, but also the value you deserve from the largest and most trusted network of funeral, cremation and memorialization service providers. All of your services are designed to help your families through one of the most personal and challenging stages of life. They understand losing a loved one is an emotional and difficult experience, and they’re committed to helping your families with compassionate, professional, and personal service.
When you first drive in it feels so peaceful and it’s a beautiful cemetery. They have a beautiful landscaping they make sure that the grass is cut perfectly and ever headstone is clean. This cemetery used to stay open all night long 24 hours but they started vandalizing it at night that one year ago they started closing the gates and locking it as soon as the sun comes down. When you first drive in the areas to your right and left from the beginning of the cemetery are only allowed to use flat plots they can’t use a high rise headstone because of their policy of the cemetery.
In the middle of the cemetery is where they have the baby land and all the children that passed away are buried there to be around the other babies. This is a small chapel where some times before taking you to your rest place that bring you here and do a small prayer and then they carry you to the place where you will be resting. I found one headstone that was blank I don't know if they wore going to add later on to it or just leave it only for now it only had a small plot that told you who it belong too.
The cemetery will be cleaning up the headstones or plots every day and if they have any extra stuff that does go with their policy they will throw them away. They used to left you go and decorate for every holiday and put solar lights an even a wind chimes but they a few years ago they started vandalizing the cemetery and they decide for the family members not to bring that to their love ones anymore because they’re not responsible for anything being vandalize. The good thing is that at least you don’t have to go back in a few days or weeks to go clean up your love ones headstone and take any dead flowers because the cemetery does that for you and they keep up with every ones headstones and if something happens to the headstone the report it or even contact you to come and make a report to get the headstone or anything done to it fixed as soon as possible.
I found a headstone that I loved it’s based on a love story I saw Ms. Helen Carpenter cleaning her husband’s headstone and I decide to stop by and asked her if I can take a few pictures and use it on my paper and she told me yes and started telling me how she decide to make it a love story. The couple meet in 1978 they both got hired out at DuPont Refinery and in 1979 Mr. Martin Carpenter was laid off and the couple really did like each other cause to her he was a nerd. He was hired in 1979 at BP Amaco refinery in Texas City she stayed at DuPont here in La Porte, Texas. They were both divorce and after a few years pass one of her co worked told her that Martin wanted to take her out on a date and of course she told him NO at least three times after asking her she decide to go on this date with him and that’s where they started dating. They dated for at least two years before getting married in August 18, 1989 here in Baytown. A few days after her husband passed away she was thinking of how she wanted to make him the perfect headstone and she felt that he was telling her how to do it because she was running in to things and pictures of how that meet their first date and even when he propose to her and she felt it was a puzzle adding up to their love story. They wore married for 18 years and she found an old invitation and napkin of their wedding that was in his computer desk mine you that desk was maybe one or two years old that’s why she couldn’t believe that was there as soon as she open the desk door. That gave her the idea of putting the invitation on the headstone and the refineries where they both meet and worked until they both retired. The doves and the rings are the invitation and the back of the headstone was DuPont & BP Amaco Refineries where they both meet and they both worked until they retired.
The family picture in the back was the first and last photo taking of all them together every year their kids and grandkids take Christmas pictures. She said that morning he came to the room and told her can you please iron my shirt for the pictures she said she didn’t have the nervous to tell him that they wore not taking pictures only the kids and grandkids. Well they went that year with the kids and grandkids to take pictures and even their kids were asking their mom why dad all is dressed up. She told them he wants to take pictures with you’ll as a family. They said cool it will be our first time as a whole family taking pictures so they did and six months later he passed away that’s why they decided to use that picture of all the kids and grandkids together because that was their first and last photo together. The poem of the broken chain was perfect for this headstone because in 2005 when BP Amaco Refinery exploded and killed all those people it really scared him that was his unit and he said that day that’s it I think it’s time for me to retired and he did for the next year all he did was spend all this time with his wife and family he worked all the time that the only time he had for his wife was the days he was off or not even just said it was at 9 ‘clock every morning or 9 at night when he worked that was his break time. He was a very smart intelligent man that he was not going to just stay at home and he decide to go work somewhere else and he started applying for other companies the day of the testing he decide a day before to go stay at a hotel to be closer to the facility where he was going to go test the next morning. He felt in the hotel lobby and hit his head on the marble floor he was rushed to the hospital but they couldn’t o anything for him so he was dismiss from the hospital and came home later on that night he was not responding and had to be life flight to Hermann Hospital. He was having an aneurysm is your brain can also swell as a result of injury, illness, or other reasons. Brain swelling, though, can quickly cause serious problems including death. It's also usually more difficult to treat. That's because as your body's master control system, the brain is critical to overall function. Yet, the thick, bony skull that snugly protects this vital organ provides little room for the brain to swell. As an aneurysm increases in size, the risk of rupture increases. A ruptured aneurysm can lead to bleeding and subsequent hypovolemic shock, leading to death. Aneurysms are a result of a weakened blood vessel wall, and can be a result of a hereditary condition or an acquired disease. The doctors couldn’t believe how he stayed alive for three days because he should of died when his head hit the marble floor the only think she believes is that he wanted her to accept that it was time for him to left and that she was going to be fine financially she would always tell him that she hated June because that was the June she lost her mom and little brother but he would always tell her June is a beautiful month you just watch and see. That June he passed away six months after his father died now she said that June was a beautiful month for her husband because that was the month he choose to left her and beginning his eternity life with God. This headstone was name the best headstone and won first place in the Hall of Fame of headstones in 2007 and is still ranting #1 district all over the Harris County of Headstones.
I enjoyed my time at Memory Garden Cemetery seeing and learning a lot about the history of the cemetery. I would always just go by for funerals but never stayed for hours just spending the day out their looking at all different kinds of headstones. I enjoyed my afternoon getting to meet Ms. Helen and telling me her love story and why she decides to make this headstone. Her husband’s headstone made the Hall of Fame Headstones in Harris County I never knew that headstones wore that important that they can be put in a drawing for the best design ever now when you go to make funeral arrangements that’s the first thing they show you headstones and the Carpenter’s headstone is the first one on the magazine. I really enjoyed myself a lot and I learned new things every time and I saw three different mausoleums for those that wish to have an above ground burial. Their mausoleum features beautiful white marble faceplates which hold bronze name plates as well as bronze vases. I have never seen that before I have only seen the one’s in the white building what looks like an office and they have all this different boxes of people being cremated and put there by their family members.
This two guys were killed at work 2005 when BP Amaco exploded they were burned to death when the unit trapped them inside. They both left their families and kids behind here are their headstones made by their love ones. I found a couple of headstones that its a whole family and they purchase a big land to buried more family member because on one side is the brothers and sisters and the back is the grandkids will be buried they have a big spot for 12 family members.
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