Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-01
GARDEN TYPE
CEMETERY TO
BE STARTED
Columbus County will soon have
q modern garden-type cemetery.

SohuihDuS SOuIlty VIII soon nave
modern garden-type cemetery.
Eugene F. Sears and Bion Sears
local business men, announced the
formation of the Columbus Gene
terry Park Corporation and mace
public their plans for develop
ment of 3O-acre tract which has
been in the Sears family for many
years.
The new cemetery, to be called
Columbus Memorial Park, will be
located just outside Whiteville CITY
limits on N. c. Highway TOT,
south.
A charter for the new corpora
ton was obtained during the JOS,
month.
The corporation has an author
lied capital stock of $4,000, sub
scribed by Eugene F. Sears, c.
Bion Sears, Mrs. Mitchell Allen
and Mrs. Bill Tally. Eugene F
Sears is president and c. Bior
Sears is secretary-treasure
President Sears announced the
employment of E. S. BoShcr OF
Fayetteville as general manager
BoSher, with long experience in
the development and maintaincncc
OF memorial parks, has already
taken preliminary steps looking
to full development of plans He
developed the Lafayette Memor-
ial Park, opposite Veterans liospi-
tai in Fayetteville, which is one OF
the most beautiful parks in the
| country.
President Sears said cemetery
plans had been approved, and thai
basic construction work, SUCH as
thing from proper drainage
rough excavating, etc, will be
started soon.
Here to anS",r GueStir-,. iris
ing from the announcement, Bosh.
er said the property is well elcy at.
ed and rolling, and will RESPOND
readily to extensive landscaping
Plans call for two entrances L
the park. These will be some 6O(
feet apart and will make 1t con.
venient to enter the cemetery from
either north or south.
The park will be beautified WITH
evergreen shrubbery, flower beds
Towering shrubs, and shade tree:
all properly assembled to give the
most pleasing effect and with III,
idea in mind of having a mass Of
blooms as nearly as possible thro.
ughout the entire year.
Driveways will be 20 feet '. id,
with curbing. Fivc-foot cemen,
walks, with dwarf lowers along
side, will lead through each Sec
| ton.
Featuring the foreground CT :hC
park and in the center will be Z
rejecting pool approximately 800
feet long and a hundred feet wide
A pair OF white swan and rlun,
goldfish Will make their hone q,
the pool as an added attraction foI
visitors who enjoy photography
Around the pool will DC piautcl
numerous aZalcaS. bulbs, ana Other
colorful blooming plants which
may be seen from the highway b,
passing motorists.
Plans call for the main feature
OF the park to be a chimes tower
centrally located, where on Sun
day afternoons and during serv-
ices, sacred music may be playcd
Other statuary, properly placed in
each section, will be a sun dial
hut of meditation, veterans Mem
orial, and Masonic memorial, etc
Bronze plaques, placed flush with
the ground, will be installed in
stead of tombstones TO mark the
graves.
Columbus Memorial Park will
operate under the cemetery laws
Of North Carolina and will thus
be endowed with perpetual care.
The Commercial National Bank OF
Charlotte has qualified as trustee
and will handle the perpetual care
fund
Sears explained that the perpct-
ual care fund will be sufficient
to insure upkeep of the park for
all time to come and that relatives
will be assured of continuous care
of the graves of loved ones.