Historic Cemetery Association Returns to Aid Aging Plots
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Shan Jakobeit, left, and her mother Connie stand by the grave of Caroline Otto, who died in 1898. The top of the gravestone has broken away from the leaning pedestal. Photo by Andy Behlen -
The gravestone of Joseph J. and Ida Fietsam, another example of the bad condition of the grave stones at Williams Creek Cemetery.
The Williams Creek Cemetery Association reorganized recently after a six-year hiatus.The last president of the association, Albert Jakobeit, died in 2021. He had been sick for a few years before that. Jakobeit and the late Robert “Buddy” Loehr, who died in 2010, took care of the cemetery for many years. In their absence, nature slowly took over the old graveyard on Kruppa Road.Occasionally,…
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