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Last body awaits next of kin at mausoleum

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 14 June 2005
By JEFFERSON WEAVER, Staff Writer Removal of the last body entombed in the Elizabethtown Mausoleum is being delayed while town officials finish the search for relatives. The remains of Kenan Carl Parker are the only ones left in the crypt, according to Town Planner Mary Jo Gollnitz. The Elizabethtown Town Council on Monday passed a resolution abandoning the structure and paving the way for its demolition. The town came into ownership of the facility after the developer defaulted on property taxes. Four County Electric Membership Corporation wants to lease the property from the town. The town began seeking owners of plots and next of kin of those buried in the mausoleum last year. Only a handful of bodies were ever placed in the tomb. Incomplete or sketchy records of the prior management of the mausoleum made it difficult for town officials to keep track of owners and next of kin. Some spaces were never used, and some bodies were apparently moved at other times. The mausoleum has fallen into disrepair through the years, and council ordered town staff to take steps toward removing it last year. The town will re-inter the remains in a grave at the town cemetery, Gollnitz said. State law allows towns to abandon cemeteries and mausoleums, but requires the bodies be relocated. If no relatives respond to advertised announcements within the next two weeks, Gollnitz said, the body will be moved to a conventional grave. Relatives could ask that the body be reburied in a private cemetery. A record of the removal will be filed with the Clerk of Court's office as required by law, Gollnitz said. The planner, whose office administers the town burying ground, said staff has tried to contact relatives of the late Mr. Parker, but has had no luck. "If anybody knows for sure they're related to him," she said, "we'd like to know. If anyone knows of a close relative, we'd appreciate a telephone call." Anyone with information about Kenan Carl Parker or his next-of-kin is asked to call the town planning office at 862-6385. http://www.bladenjournal.com/articles/2005/06/14/news/news08.txt

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“Of comfort no man speak Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills.”

King Richard II, Act III, Scen