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Cemetery headstones restored

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Company spent 14 hours on the repairs BY ERINN DESHINSKY OF THE JOURNAL STAR LADD, IL - Repairs have restored some peace of mind to families that were shocked by widespread vandalism last month at the rural Berean Cemetery just north of Ladd. More than half the cemetery's headstones were toppled June 3. Those 57 headstones are now back in place, thanks to the Moore Monument and Granite Co. of Princeton. "A lot of family members would go by there," said Dawn Dabler, the company's office manager, said this week. "Our main concern was to help ease the families." A four-member crew worked about 14 hours putting together the pieces of the cemetery and its toppled headstones. With a crane and bucket tractor, Dabler, along with Brad Crawford, Darren Haan and Joe Shearer, worked in 90-degree heat, righting the large granite monuments and plastering together the older limestone headstones that had broken. Some giant stones were said to weigh about 800 pounds. "We had to do a little puzzle piecing," Dabler said, adding the team was able to get all of them back up. Dabler also cleaned each stone. By Thursday bouquets of flowers contrasted brightly with the gray skies. Along with the newly polished headstones, the flowers gave the cemetery a look of rejuvenation. Eric J. Uranich, 17, of 1720 Campbell Ave. in LaSalle is accused of knocking over the stones and has been charged with criminal damage to property. Authorities interviewed several juveniles who reportedly were at the cemetery the night it was vandalized, but only Uranich has been charged. He will appear Aug. 15 in Bureau County Circuit Court. Crawford said the headstones ranged from 20 to 160 years old. The cemetery holds many family plots, and passers-by came out during the restoration to thank Moore's group. The damage is estimated at about $150,000 dollars. "I was surprised that somebody would do such a thing," Crawford said. "I had never seen damage that extensive before in a cemetery caused by an individual." http://www.pjstar.com/stories/072106/REG_BAEO18VB.049.shtml

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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