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Cemetery
Guidelines
(1) Until
further notice, the fee for all cemetery plots in Sections 1
and 2 (both in what is called the old cemetery) is $150.00
each, to be placed in a perpetual care fund.
(a) There will be a waiver of cemetery plot fee for Sections 1
and 2 (both in old cemetery) if spouse is already
buried
there.
(b) Persons
with plots already marked off as of December 1, 2002, but
the fee not paid, have the opportunity
of reserving those
plots for $150.00. All plots marked but the fee not
paid, could be declared vacant.
(c) Plots in Sections 1 and 2 (both in old cemetery),
may only be reserved by spouses, sons (son-in-law),
and/or daughters (daughters-in-law) of members of Bethel Baptist
Church, or by close family relatives (as
determined
by
Bethel Church), of those already interred in the said
Sections.
(d)
Any special situation/circumstances will be heard by the
Cemetery Committee and referred by
said committee to the
Bethel Baptist Church benevolence committee.
(2) Cemetery
Plots in Section 3 (referred to as the new Cemetery) are
$300.00 each, to be placed in a perpetual care
fund.
(3) Vaults
are required for every burial, unless the deceased in
cremated. If the deceased is cremated, the ashes
shall be placed in an appropriate container/urn.
(4) Grave
sites are not to be opened without a member of Bethel
Baptist Church Cemetery Committee, or Church
Staff being
present.
(a) It is recommended
the grave opening and closing be done by hand. If not,
there should be a $100.00
deposit for the purpose of
landscaping the grave site. After a period of one
month following internment,
the deposit will be refunded
provided the grave site is landscaped by family.
(b) In most circumstances, the church reserves the
right to require the grave be opened by hand.
(5) A Bethel
Church Cemetery Committee Member, or Church Staff Member
must be present when
headstones/monuments are set.
(a) All grave/foot markers (not including
headstones/monuments) must be level with ground.
(b) There shall be no further construction, coping, or
planting, other than grass/sod, on grave sites.
(c) Funeral/decoration flowers left on ground at grave
site must be moved within two weeks after event.
(6) Cemetery gate (to be installed later) to be opened
from dawn until dusk daily.
(7) Cemetery
plots may be obtained only from Cemetery Committee Members
or from Church Administrator. All
financial
transactions and plot recording must be done through Church
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