March 28, 2024

Rehoboth Cemetery Commission Thank You

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The Rehoboth Cemetery Commission would like to thank to many people who helped with the Memorial Service for Civil War Veteran, Alexander Williams on September 22nd.

Thanks to Cem Com members Connie Wenzel-Jordan and Melissa Enos for all their help with this project.

Thanks to VSO, Jake Kramer for procuring the gravestone in the first place and parking cars and seeing to the safety of the people attending.

Thanks to the Lizotte family for allowing participants to park on their property which made it so much safer for everyone than parking on Brook Street and to Kathy Deemer for allowing people to use her property to access the cemetery, the use her driveway and for providing refreshments and a shady place for the MA 54th Volunteers.

Thanks to the MA 54th Volunteers under the command of Lt. Benny White for their wonderful performance and fellowship after the service.

Thanks to trumpet players Ross Marino and Matthew Rausch of Somerset-Berkley High School playing Taps at the ceremony.

Thanks to Rev. Ken Postle of New Hope Baptist Church in Millville for the moving Eulogy and to his wife Karen Munroe-Postle for spending part of their 35th Wedding Anniversary with us.

Thanks to the Rehoboth Antiquarian Society for the generous use of the Carpenter Museum for refreshments and fellowship after the event.

Thanks to my husband, Jerry Baker, for his support all month long while planning for the Memorial Service.

Thanks to Sandy Phillips who took photographs.

Thanks to the Brook Street neighbors for their hospitality and the People of Rehoboth for their patience in enduring the inconvenience of people crossing Brook Street.

John at Morse & Beggs Monuments for the great job he did correcting the stone for us.

Thanks to everyone who came out to honor Rehoboth’s Civil War Veteran, “buried at Hix”

Beverly Baker, Cem Com Chairman


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