Sarah White is dressed in a period costume while highlighting Hetti Meyer’s life on the Voices of the Past occasion at Crown Hill Cemetery in Pasadena.
Linda Davis hears Robbie Lowe tell the story of Eula May Pitts Brockman, wife of J. S. Brockman.
Michelle Partin highlights the life of Emma McMasters.
Hubert Winters listens to Gary Wood’s story of Jacob David Miller.
Patti Bodkins presented about the life of Bama Pitts.
Visitors pay attention to Robyn Davis and Robbie Lowe detailing the lives of Pitts family members.
Gawain Seymour played George Colter Evans at the Voices of the Past event.
Mike Murphey enjoys visiting ancient cemeteries and wondering about the lives of those whose names are inscribed on tombstones.
“Just believe those people. Each cemetery has a million stories,” says Murphey, president of the Crown Hill Cemetery Association, which maintains a six-acre site in Pasadena dating back to 1906 and includes some six hundred graves.
On Saturday, about a hundred visitors to the Voices of the Past occasion at Crown Hill Cemetery, 813 N. Richey, had nothing to imagine.
Reconstituent volunteers dressed as periods stood next to some of the tombs to constitute the Americans who were important to Pasadena’s progression. The accessories used in the presentations ranged from fruits to a basket of dirty laundry hanging from the line.
In a grave, a guy and a woguy told the story of World War II soldier Ben Guttierez, the only army veteran buried in the cemetery who died in action. A member of the 160th Army Infantry Division, Gutierrez died at the age of 23 in 1944, as U. S. troops fought to reclaim the island of Guam from Japanese forces. Pasadana at the time had about 1,500 inhabitants.
Murphey said Gutierrez’s aunt and uncle had recently spoken to him on a scale in the cemetery.
In pre-sale at the Voices event, visitors heard the story of the Pitts family, who own a giant furniture store in the city. Murphey remembers them from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Other characters depicted on the occasion come with Eula May Pitts Brockman, Emma McMasters and Bama Pitts.
Murphey thinks it’s for those other people’s stories to be told.
“We examine the other people who are buried there. We’re looking to re-edit the little ones about this story,” he said.
“Without any of these, Pasadena would have changed,” he said of those buried in Crown Hill.
For more information about the cemetery and the arrangement and its activities, visit the Crown Hill Cemetery Facebook page or historiccrownhillcimetière. com