O-Bits: Cemetery Hits and Misses Edition

Yesterday, we published a fake story about a Michigan morgue; today we’re running real news that’s even worse: truth once again proves worse than fiction. Our real story, from the Central Michigan Morning Sun, about a mortuary worker in Montcalm County is accused of stealing money people paid for cemetery plots. The woman, Donna Mae Goodsell, was rather inaptly named. She took the money, marked the accounts paid, but never deposited the funds. So, thankfully, nobody lost the spaces they paid for. She was honest in one way. According to sheriff, Goodsell did not overcharge any of the victims.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, people are worried about loved ones already buried. The Eternal Hills Cemetery is looking less and less eternal. The owner, who has been had its licensed threatened since 2016, now claims is can no longer provide any services. Its license has been revoked and the state declared it in involuntary bankruptcy.   Eve Costello, the district attorney.  said the cemetery would continue to remain open  that ownership will pass along to another party. But those who have plots for themselves or have loved ones interred there are worried.

We hope the Churchill Cemetery in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania has their insurance up-to-date. That’s because an SUV driver served into the graveyard early in the morning, and cut a swathe though a few headstones before rolling the truck onto its side. Authorities have no idea what the driver was doing in the cemetery at that hour.

 

Steven Mirkin

Steven Mirkin’s diverse career has taken him from politics to pop culture to high art, offering him a front row seat to some of the most fascinating events and personalities of our time: writing speeches, fundraising appeals and campaign materials for Ed Koch, John Heinz and independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson; chronicling the punk/new wave scenes in New York and London; interviewing musicians such as Elton John, John Lydon and Buck Owens; profiling modern masters Julian Schnabel, Paul Schrader and Jonathan Safran Foer; and writing for TV shows including 21, The Chamber, Let's Make A Deal, and Rock Star: INXS.

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