Power Couple: The Lutches

 Sadly, we don't have a before on this one, but I wanted to share it anyway. Melvin was a Pearl Harbor survivor who lived to 99; his wife was a Marine Staff Sergeant in World War II. I bet Thanksgiving at their house was pretty intense.

Work by Lew M.

Power Couple: The Acorns

Milton S. Acorn, 1918- 1993

Dorothy I. Acorn, 1923- 2014

From Britannica: WAVES, acronym of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, military unit, established on July 30, 1942, as the U.S. Navy’s corps of female members. During World War II some 100,000 WAVES served in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from performing essential clerical duties to serving as instructors for male pilots-in-training. Initially, they did not serve overseas. Several thousand WAVES also participated in the Korean War. The corps continued its separate existence until 1978.

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Irene McInturf Hankinson, 1905-2002

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work by Shannon M.

Like all of Shannon's work these look great, but I uploaded them because I am a sucker for epitaphs I haven't seen before.

Nora Ruth WIlliams, 1916-2000

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Anthony Healey, 1841-1922

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work by Shannon M.

D2, the cleanser we use to remove impurities from stone, can take up to a year to work. Here you can see some progress after about a week. I'm looking forward to updating this one in a couple of months!

Note that there are no dates on these headstones. I was able to find Anthony on findagrave.com and confirmed it was the right person on ancestry.com. You can tell a lot about a soldier from their headstones-- in this case, this is a civil war veteran on the Union side. Shapes and inscriptions on US military grave markers have changed over time. They offer clues into what war a soldier fought in if there are no dates available.

Augustun M. Adams, 1894-1975

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note: There is a big difference here that will be made even bigger after multiple polishings. It's not uncommon for graves to require multiple passes.