MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
Tombstone Design
Following A
Modern Styling
. Dyersburg, Tenn. (UPD
Tombstone styles, like every
thing eke, keep changing.
i "Tilings just aren't the same
as when I first started work
ing on markers back in 1914
said Clarence O. Parmenter.
who entered his . family';
- monument business when h
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1961
was 16.
"Folks were a lot fussier
about monuments back in
those days," he said. "They
demanded all kinds of fancy
carving and ornamental work
A man had to be pretty much
of on artist.','
Today, he said, monuments
are streamlined, with a few
simple lines and little fanc
. , work.
, .There . are exceptions
though.
1 A tew years ago, a man
: 1 drowned while fishing at Reel.
foot lake. ,
"He loved fishing so much
his wife decided it would bel
. . nice to depict his hobby on
the marker, ' Parmenter said
"Using three colors of gran
ite, we reproduced an actual
scene from Reelfoot lake, in.
' eluding a man in a boat catch.
ing a fish." :
; Parmenter also has carved
, a shotgun on the monument of
a hunter and the official em
blem of the Illinois Central
Railroad on the marker of a
man who wanted it there to
commemorate his 50 years
with the line.
Significant Change
But thf. most significant
change, Parmenter believes, is
the trend to pick out a monu
ment before death. :
"I never will forget the first
time my father sold a monu.
ment that way," Parmenter
said. "An - old couple, they
: were both in their 70's, came
by and picked out their tomb
stone and told my father what
they wanted on it.
"That was in 1008, and it
really created a sensation,
"Many folks were so super
stitious they said the couple
would be punished for picking
out their tombstone before
their 'time to go.
"I guess they always fig
ured they were right, too, be
cause the wife died before my
daddy could get the tombstone
finished."
Often, markers contain only
the name and the birth and
ath dates of the entombed.
. vnetlme, however, the de
I rted one arrange! to leave a
. linal wo4 to ,W,Qrl4. j.,.
Parmenter particularly re
members this eplaph:
"Beware kind friends as you
pass by,
As you arc now, so once was I,
As I am now, so you must be,
Prepare, therefore, to follow
me." .
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