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ERITAGE HA newsletter for friends of The Catholic SPRING/SUMMER 2020 “ is Changed, Not Ended” Moving Into By Joan Gecik, Executive Director ming that we had planned from the end “Life is changed, not ended.” We hear of March through the end of August has the these affirming words at liturgies, been put on hold. We never know what By Joan Gecik, Executive Director stating our belief in the resurrection after a new day will bring for us to address. This past year, the executive team at a . These past weeks have felt like The Catholic Cemeteries spent several death; all our have been changed. Because our focus is on keeping every- months studying death and We no longer pray together, visit friends, one safe, I’m issuing my own executive trends as well as looking at how we can hold grandchildren, eat out, or be care- order for Memorial Day, shown below. be prepared to meet both the present free when shopping for essentials. Some and future needs of our families. of us have lost a loved one but have not Unfortunately, for the Memorial Day been able to hold a funeral service of any Weekend, May 23, 24, 25: What we learned was that Catholics kind and in some cemeteries, one cannot • All cemetery offices will be closed have more fully accepted as even get out of the car to be present at (Resurrection, Calvary, Gethsemane, an option for disposition of the body. the . We have no idea of how long St. Anthony’s, St. Mary’s) As a result, we have seen an increase in the grieving of what “was normal” will the need for burial options for cremat- • There will be no Memorial Day last. And through it all, we want to know Masses ed remains. We already have plenty of the “why” and when it will end. the traditional earth-burial areas in all • and restrooms our cemeteries. However, we will need will not be open At our cemeteries, we are experiencing more niches and Back to an abnormal normal. Every day we read • Pre-sale and on-site flower sales Nature cremation areas at Resurrection. and listen to the best advice of the day will not be available from the CDC, our governor, and other • There will be no staff, including cemeteries across the country. We have Family Services Counselors, on site agreed that there are two important foci to what we do. The first is to continue to Our cemetery grounds will be open for prayerfully and respectfully bury those individuals to visit or to walk through. who have died. The second is to keep We encourage you to spend time at any both our employees, and those who of them, but with the safety of others in visit us, safe while they are here. mind. We hope that this pandemic is a The new columbarium with ossuary to be once-in-a-lifetime event. We pray for all This has meant that some staff now installed in Section 7. to be safe and to look with gratitude for have to work from home most of the the new ways life springs forth. Life is Planning for change week. Field employees need to be more changed, but not ended. We examined the cemetery expansion cautious in how they do their work and plan from 25 years ago and found that deal with the public. Markers and mon- Grave location maps will be available for it never anticipated the changes we are uments that normally would be installed your visit if requested by May 21. experiencing. So we asked one of our prior to Memorial Day will not be placed Go to “Our Ministries” and click on partners at Coldspring (a primary because we have no idea when suppliers “Burial Record Request” on our website: will deliver them to us. All the program- www.catholic-cemeteries.org Continued on page 2

Heritage, a newsletter for friends of The Catholic Cemeteries • catholic-cemeteries.org • Spring/Summer 2020 1 Moving into the future, continued from page 1 natural-stone manufacturing facility and The ossuary provides for this separation function as a monument, and as previ- bronze foundry) to meet with us regard- of remains. It will be less expensive than ously mentioned, with more , ing our vision and to update our plans. an individual niche and the names of we wanted to offer additional areas for all individuals will be inscribed on cremated remains. We are also going We are considering the basic concept outside panels of the ossuary. to look at the birch tree area on the of the original plan, which was to build west side of the Chapel for out the area from our original mau- Appealing options placement of cremation rocks. This area soleum. What we desire is a place that One of the concerns that I have always is not only near the Chapel, but also near will be open to both full-body had is that many people do not know the area (Gate of ) and cremation niches. We also want an what to do after cremation. As Catho- and overlooks the Peaceable Kingdom area in which we may hold an outside lics, we believe that cremated remains Garden which is being renovated. service. And we want that area to have are still the body of the deceased and some water features and garden areas – that they deserve respect and burial. We’ve also been looking for ways to be places to sit and reflect. This expansion Some families do not have the funds to more environmentally friendly and to will need to be done in three phases and inter (bury) the cremated remains and bring in more wildlife into the ceme- most likely will take us into the next so hold onto them. We want to help all tery. One of the projects is adding to 20 years of cemetery development. families have a space to remember their the number of bluebird houses at loved ones as well as a place to visit. Resurrection Cemetery. Because the A second level of expansion may occur This special columbarium offers yet wide-open sections at Resurrection are this summer when we add one colum- another option for those who may ideal for bluebirds, 12 additional bluebird barium in Section 7. This columbarium not have the necessary funds for an houses will be added to the cemetery. will have an added feature of an ossuary individual burial space. for cremated remains. The ossuary We have a lot going on as we strive to serves as a place where cremated We are also going to expand our crema- serve the needs of the families who remains are placed communally in in- tion-rock area. During the past year, we come to us with their loved ones. We dividual velvet bags. Catholic burial of have begun to allow cremation rocks continue to change with the times, cremated remains directs that the cre- to be placed in Section 19A, which is a creating beautiful places for prayer, mated remains cannot be intermingled. monument section. The cremation rocks remembering, and reflection. Partnership values volunteers

When we attend a funer- relationships with Heal- nitely the biggest blessing in my position al and burial, we assem- thEast Care System and as Director of Life Transition Ministries. ble with others to cele- Fairview Health Ser- It is the most significant thing I do.” brate a life well lived – a vices (both now part of life that was important. M Health Fairview) to Sister Fran said the hospitals are essen- But what about a life that receive the remains of tial in their willingness to connect fam- didn’t have the opportu- pre-term infants. A service ilies with the service, keep records, and nity to grow up – the life that is open to all grieving coordinate with her and Gill Brothers of a fetus or a miscarried families takes place in the Funeral Home. Gill Brothers provides or stillborn child? That Chapel Mausoleum at small communal containers along with life is important to those Joan Gecik and Cindy Keller light Resurrection Cemetery transportation – all at no charge. The who loved it and yet that candles for the fetal burial service. four times a year, followed fourth-generation, family-owned busi- life is seldom celebrated. by a communal burial in a ness has been facilitating burial of fetal specially designated area of the cemetery. remains since the 1940s. Dan McGraw, A collaborative partnership great-grandson of founder Michael Since 2006 that circumstance has When Sister Fran Donnelly, B.V.M., Gill, said, “The burial of fetal remains is been changing. That was the year The talks about The Catholic Cemeteries important in a very fundamental way… Catholic Cemeteries formalized their fetal burial ministry, she says, “It’s defi- Continued on page 3

2 Heritage, a newsletter for friends of The Catholic Cemeteries • catholic-cemeteries.org • Spring/Summer 2020 From the Executive Director

Ask and You Shall Receive In our last newsletter, I invited every- one to join in partnership with us to enhance our cemeteries. We are grateful to an anonymous donor who has gifted us with a statue of St. Joseph that graces the new columbarium on the east side of our Chapel Mausoleum at Resur- rection Cemetery. As you may recall, we have a statue of “Mary with Child” on the west side. So, in effect, the Holy Family now surrounds this mausoleum. The statue was installed in April. We are grateful to the anonymous donor who gifted us with this statue of St. Joseph. Joan Gecik, Executive Director

I was pleased to receive a processional Minneapolis. The Knights have been cross for Calvary Cemetery from The very generous to The Catholic Cemeter- Knights of Columbus Council Henne- ies in both their donation of time and pin-Minneapolis #435. The presenta- of individual gifts to our various tion took place at the Council’s annual cemeteries. Remembrance Mass in November 2019 The underside of the cross (right) is inscribed at of the Holy Name in south with the names of deceased Council members.

Partnership values volunteers, continued from page 2 Following Catholic teaching, our family St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Mendota. family. It’s important for families to believes that there is an essential dignity Carol Mulvihill, coordinator of the be able to grieve for them.” in how the body should be treated at committee, schedules three people for death, no matter what the age.” each of the quarterly services. Since In addition to volunteering at the fetal 2014, the volunteers have distributed burial services, the Community Caring Since the quarterly services began in programs, ushered people to seats, for Life meets once a month during 2006, The Catholic Cemeteries and provided flowers for guests to bring to the school year. The meeting concludes their partners have conducted 60 ser- the communal gravesite, and served with a prayer of thanksgiving to God to vices during which 8,966 fetal remains refreshments when the weather allows continue to guide their activities. were buried. The average burial per following the service. service is approximately 125 remains. Carol said the members of the Com- Attendance at each service averages Carol said committee members munity Caring for Life believe “… between 50 and 75 people, with fluctua- embrace the opportunity to be at it’s important as a community that we tions by season. Resurrection for the service. “They are honor those little ones. They were part really touched by it. You feel you’ve of a family. Sometimes women are Valued volunteers been helpful to someone who is in sor- told, ‘You’ll have another child,’ which Families are often unsure of what to row. It’s important as a community that feels as though the deceased baby is expect at the service but are quickly put we care for every life and that we honor discounted. It is important to grieve; it at ease by members of the Community those little ones. They were part of a was a life. It will always be remembered. Caring for Life committee from nearby That life had dignity, too.”

Heritage, a newsletter for friends of The Catholic Cemeteries • catholic-cemeteries.org • Spring/Summer 2020 3 Dean Lensing retires this summer A life of listening The manner in which Dean Lensing Many burial options has spent the past 23 and a half years as A clear advantage to pre-planning a a Family Services Counselor with The burial, Dean noted, is that a family can Catholic Cemeteries has some similar- make decisions when they’re not griev- ities to his youth. Growing up as one of ing. Then they have time to consider the 11 children instilled qualities such as many available options. Dean explained listening, humor, and compassion. And that a family must decide whether the the point could be made that Dean has burial will be for cremated remains or transplanted his roots from his family’s a full body and whether the burial is farm in southwestern Minnesota to the “above or below ground.” Cremated Dean Lensing, Family Services Counselor, rolling acres of Resurrection Cemetery remains can be buried above ground in a waves in anticipation of his retirement. and the tree-studded turf at Calvary niche in the mausoleum or in a colum- Cemetery and St. Mary’s Cemetery. barium, in an ossuary – referred to in Memorialization decisions the “Moving into the future” article – In addition to the type of burial, deci- Before responding to a notice for his or can be buried in the earth. Full-body sions are made related to memorializa- position, Dean spent time working for remains are buried in a casket in a tion. A monument stands vertically at Marshall, Minnesota-based Schwan’s in the mausoleum or buried in the earth. the head of a grave that is located in a Company and working in church parish- section of a cemetery that is designated es. He also was a field worker at Resur- Since 2019, The Catholic Cemeteries has for monuments. A marker is placed flush rection Cemetery while attending college interred unembalmed bodies in natural with the earth at the foot of a grave. in the Twin Cities. containers in the natural-burial section at Resurrection Cemetery. Among the decisions related to select- Listening and guiding ing a marker or monument are the size, When asked about his work, Dean In addition to the type of burial, a family type, color, and finish of the stone; any replied, “Every day, some things are decides how many spaces to acquire. descriptive text in addition to a person’s different and some are the same.” Often Frequently the number is two, for a wife name and birth and death dates; and the people come to Dean during a time of and husband, but sometimes space is style of type. The larger size of an upright and need. He listens and guides also acquired for children or other rela- monument can accommodate graphics them through making decisions about tives. Once a family decides on the type as well as text. the type of burial they prefer and the of burial, Dean asks many questions, details related to selecting a monument including those related to the type of Dean recalled a discussion during which or marker. setting someone prefers, budget an ardent golfer decided the golf-related considerations, and more. graphics were “a bit much.” The man Dean listens to what people say as well opted instead for this text, “All my life as to what is left unsaid. He said he tries Dean recounted one situation in which I was over par, but now I’m six under.” “…to cover all the options so people can the widow was having a difficult time make an informed decision.” He wants selecting which section of the cemetery Adornments are available to embellish people to feel right about the decisions was best for her husband’s burial. As both above- and below-ground . they make and that their choices are Dean drove the woman and her adult Vases can be attached to a monument, aligned with what they can afford. children through Resurrection Cem- crypt, or mausoleum to hold flowers, Dean also said, “If someone doesn’t etery a second time, a deer appeared memory lights, or candles. And later this understand, where I go next is to ask and looked right at them. The woman year, Dean said The Catholic Cemeteries more questions. You get a feel for people. explained that her husband had loved will begin offering full-color porcelain You also need humor. Sometimes people nature and animals and imagined her portraits to memorialize someone. The appreciate that.” husband guiding her to that area of Catholic cemeteries now believes the the cemetery with the thought, technology has caught up to demand “Dear, right here.” for this waterproof, fade-proof memorialization option. Continued on page 6

4 Heritage, a newsletter for friends of The Catholic Cemeteries • catholic-cemeteries.org • Spring/Summer 2020 Bob Zimmer continues “a life of service” Learning life skills on the job

After spending more than 30 years as a Some of “those changes” included mar- member of the field staff on the grounds rying Molly (Thole) ten years ago and of The Catholic Cemeteries, Bob becoming the parents of three boys who Zimmer is now spending at least part are now ages 8, 6, and 4. As a family, of his time indoors as a Family Services they represented The Catholic Cemeter- Counselor. He will continue to use his ies at St. Anthony Cemetery during the keen listening skills while talking with Memorial Day weekend, assisting at the people about their immediate burial Mass (their sons distributed the Mass needs or about pre-planning their burial. programs) as well as selling flowers, Bob Zimmer is transitioning from the field all of which Bob has been doing for staff to becoming a Family Services Counselor. At age 17, Bob became a seasonal work- 20 years since former cemeteries Execu- er at Calvary Cemetery through the rec- the field.” Bob went on to say that, tive Director, John Cherek, invited him. ommendation of his Big Brothers/Big “Everything I’ve done is service. I’m Ongoing gratitude Sisters mentor, Ron, who worked just changing the aspect of the ministry “I’m very thankful I was able to find at St. Mary's and Calvary with his I perform.” own Big Brother, Dick Bierbaum, the this job that I didn’t intend to keep. foreman at Calvary. Bob was hired full Adding skills Everyone who has worked here for time at Calvary in 1991, then spent five In the near future, Bob plans to enroll more than 10 years says the same thing, years working at Gethsemane Cemetery in the two-year Catechetical Institute and yet we’re all still here,” Bob said. before coming to Resurrection in 1998. offered by the Archdiocese since 2008. “It’s fascinating how this line of work After his first year of studies, Bob can draw you in. We see people on their Bob said, “Everything I have learned intends to apply for deacon training. worst day most of the time. Our attitude from working, I have learned here, from These are not requirements for the is important when talking to people fixing mechanical problems on equip- responsibilities of a Family Services in those circumstances. It’s fascinating ment to repairing walls to planting Counselor; rather they’re “…something how this work can change a person.” vegetation. I never pictured myself in I’ve toyed with all of my adult life, to Read more about Bob and his family: a sales position, but already I’m excited do some sort of ministry work. When catholic-cemeteries.org/wp-content/ to use some skill sets I rarely use in I was in college, I intended to go into uploads/2019/08/Heritage-Fall14.pdf the priesthood, but life changes.” Ivan Cardoso Sanchez Leaf Larson Ivan Cordoso Sanchez has family con- At the suggestion of a former Catholic nections to The Catholic Cemeteries. His Cemeteries employee, Leaf Larson became father, Baltazar, joined the staff in a full- a temporary/seasonal field staff worker at time capacity in 2001 and is now the field Calvary Cemetery about eight years ago. staff supervisor at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Last year, Jon Louris, operations manager, Ivan’s older brother, Cornelio, is a full- asked Leaf about coming back, which he time field staff employee at Calvary. gladly did. Now Leaf is a member of the full-time field staff crew. Ivan Cardoso Sanchez Now it’s Ivan’s turn. He started working Leaf Larson with his father at St. Mary’s in 2016. Last In addition to taking care of all the May, his status changed to that of a full-time field-staff employ- grounds and vegetation, field staff clean the buildings on ee at Resurrection Cemetery. Ivan said, “It is very interesting cemetery grounds, clear snow, and occasionally serve as work. Not a lot of people like to do the work we do, but I grew pall bearers, whereas seasonal field staff work from April up around it. I love the environment.” Continued on page 7 to November, doing everything except operating the heavy equipment. Continued on page 7

Heritage, a newsletter for friends of The Catholic Cemeteries • catholic-cemeteries.org • Spring/Summer 2020 5 Gardening leads to connections If you visited Resurrection Cemetery Lou Lou has worked as a liturgical late last summer and fall, you may musician in metro-area parishes, and have noticed Mary Lou (Lou Lou) more recently at the memory-care unit Larson-Fine, the gardener. She would of Carondelet Village in St. Paul. She have been weeding the new rock garden is also a trained Stephen Minister and at the north end of the cemetery in Befriender at The Church of St. John which cremated remains are entombed Neumann in Eagan. in large boulders. Lou Lou also worked in the gardens near the pond that is It’s through her ministry activities that beyond the cemetery entrance and the Lou Lou met Joan Gecik, Executive Lou Lou Larson-Fine, a liturgical musician, also Chapel Mausoleum. Director of The Catholic Cemeteries. tends Resurrection's gardens. When Joan first took Lou Lou on a tour Lou Lou says what she loves about her of Resurrection Cemetery, Lou Lou re- “I can pray the day away thinking work is that when a person visits the calls feeling as though “our feet were on of all who are buried there.” cemetery and sees someone working fire – we were dancing with joy” about on the grounds, “…to that person, the work Lou Lou could accomplish in In conversations with Joan and Resur- that’s an immediate positive feeling.” the gardens. rection staff, Lou Lou suggested estab- Lou Lou’s visibility, along with that lishing bee and butterfly gardens and of the field staff, leads to answering Lou Lou described her early weeks as inviting volunteers from area churches questions, providing directions, and “a continuous learning curve,” asking to get involved with maintaining the engaging in heartfelt conversations. questions initially of Joan, then of Dave cemetery gardens. Joan and Lou Lou Kemp, strategic planning and manager believe “there is reverence and joy” People are grieving for special projects, and Mike Gray, to be experienced when people come More than 20 years ago, Lou Lou and field manager. Lou Lou said, “There are together in a place like Resurrection. her husband adopted four babies from great people working at the cemetery. Korea. They experienced profound grief They’re involved; they’re a community.” Lou Lou recalled an encounter with a when their oldest son died by in guest who asked where the sisters from 2017. Since then, more than 400 people Reverence and joy Visitation School were buried. When have told Lou Lou and her husband Lou Lou said that initially her work was they arrived at that section of the cem- about a loved one who “died by suicide.” to help improve the grounds, but as she etery, the guest went from gravestone Lou Lou explained that her background digs in the earth and pulls the weeds, to gravestone with stories about each helps her cope with the loss of her son she notices her exertions “take off sister. “They were great, great stories. as well as the losses others have ex- stress” and she feels a sense of healing. It’s meaningful for people to be able to perienced. For five years she worked Because she has worked with many of share those stories, knowing they’re in as a youth minister after graduating the priests and sisters who are buried a safe and welcoming place,” Lou Lou from the College of St. Benedict with a at Resurrection Cemetery through her said. Feel free to say “Hi” to Lou Lou degree in social work. For four decades, music ministry, Lou Lou reflected, when you see her this summer at Resurrection!

Dean Lensing – A life of listening, continued from page 4 Missing people Dean said he will especially miss “the We invite you to subscribe to our While Dean may miss the rollout of the many wonderful customers I’ve worked Heritage eNewsletter for supplemen- porcelain portraits if they become avail- with.” He strongly believes, “God led me tal timely stories and happenings at able before his July 2 retirement date, he here,” to work with people in their time The Catholic Cemeteries. said he will most miss the people with of need and to fulfill the mission of The whom he has worked – “collaborating Catholic Cemeteries, which is also the with extended staff – management, office church’s mission. “We are faith-based, Sign up at: staff, and field staff, all functioning as and that makes a difference in how we catholic-cemeteries.org/newsletters a unit.” approach things.”

6 Heritage, a newsletter for friends of The Catholic Cemeteries • catholic-cemeteries.org • Spring/Summer 2020 Expanded responsibilities New office manager brings many skills Dennis Willing Cindy Reckinger After spending two years as a part-time “Begin at the beginning” is common hospitality greeter and office associate, advice. Cindy Reckinger is beginning her Dennis Willing became office assistant new position at The Catholic Cemeteries at Resurrection Cemetery on March 1. with a continuation of her many skills. Some of his many responsibilities are scheduling interments; leading In her position as office manager at the hearse, family, and others to the Resurrection Cemetery, Cindy will gravesite; and helping families locate expand on the many responsibilities she graves. As Dennis’ last name suggests, held as a parish administrator for eight he really is “willing” to respond to re- years at a church that had a cemetery. Cindy Reckinger brings many skills to the quests from families, staff, and others. Some of those activities include main- position of office manager at Resurrection. taining cemetery records, updating Dennis became acquainted with Resur- titles, scheduling interments, selling software program and also handwritten rection Cemetery when he spent time gravesites, and managing changes in on a card that is stored in the paper taking photos of grave markers and ownership of graves. jacket that pertains to each lot. The monuments that he uploaded to Find for the deceased is also entered A Grave that is owned by Ancestry.com Cindy remarked, “There’s a lot of detail in the software program to confirm the Dennis said being a volunteer photogra- in this position. Being organized is accuracy of the date of death, family pher and uploading the photos he takes important as is listening and commu- relationships, and more. That informa- brings him joy. “I like the possibility of nicating.” Cindy looks forward to her tion is helpful for lot owners as well as helping someone find their loved one.” collaboration with office staff, field staff, historians and family genealogists. and Family Services Counselors, taking Two years ago, in a newsletter article that in their ideas and implementing some On familiar ground introduced Dennis, he commented “… for the good of the whole office-related If there appears to be strong consis- that most cemeter- operation. tency in Cindy’s professional activities, ies are not as care- her personal heritage reflects a similar fully maintained Cindy’s responsibilities also include re- continuity. She has spent her entire as is Resurrection.” cording the sales of lots, scheduling and life living within the Archdiocese of Now that he works approving all interments with funeral Paul and Minneapolis. Cindy was at Resurrection homes, and ordering grave markers. baptized at St. Joseph’s in West St. Paul, and is acquainted Cindy also oversees installation orders grew up in St. John Vianney in South with the policies that the field staff will follow when St. Paul, was married at Saint Stanislaus Dennis Willing and people behind installing markers and monuments Church in St. Paul, and now worships at the appearance of on graves. St. Patrick’s in Inver Grove Heights. the cemetery, Dennis feels even more strongly that the conscientious care of A system in place requires Cindy to en- Cindy said, “I’m very pleased to be here. the grounds assures families that “their ter all of the ownership- and date-relat- I feel very welcome from everyone here. family member is being cared for.” ed information twice – in the cemetery They are great people to work with.”

Ivan Cordoso Sanchez, continued from page 5 Leaf Larson, continued from page 5 Of the natural burial area, Ivan said, “Every time is different. Working with his hands is part of Leaf’s heritage. He worked Some caskets are baskets, some are wood. We try our best to with his grandfather and father who owned and operated a do what families want. I am always happy to help.” construction company.

What Ivan really enjoys is digging with the backhoe. “I’m still When asked what Leaf found to be most rewarding about his learning but it’s one of my favorite things. The machinery is what work, he quickly responded, “I like finishing off the grave after I really like,” he said. “I also really love interacting with people. the job is complete. It’s important that the family is happy. It’s important to help people say goodbye to a loved one.” I got that from my dad and grandpa.”

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Bridal Wreath (Spiraea prunifolia) blooming in late May at St. Mary’s Cemetery.

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