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St. John's Cemetery is located on Moose Hill Road in Monroe, Connecticut. It is a very new cemetery, previously the Monroe Airport which was active from 1940 until 1973. The earliest burials in the cemetery date from the 1980s. I found several intriguing monuments and inscriptions in St. John's, which features flat stones, upright memorials, and a few mausolea. Numerous veterans are interred here, notably many veterans of the Korean Campaign and Viet Nam.
Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 1328.
Photos taken 19 June 2012 and 3 April 2023.
View of St. John's from the entrance.
Martinez monument.
"Estrellita
Mi Amor
Estrella
Sept. 25, 1927
Jan. 14, 2009
Frank
Nov. 3, 1935"
"Until we meet again
Paul Michael
Dec. 21, 1947
May 30, 2016
May God hold you in the palm of his hand
REYNOLDS"
Detail, James monument
"Bratchell
Joseph A.
July 15, 1950
Oct. 30, 2011
Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me."
"United States Champion
Accordion Player
Third in World Champions
William Samonek
Died May 3, 2006
With Love from Mom & Dad"
Valentino mausoleum
"Wysocki
Rosemary J.
Oct. 26, 1942
July 16, 2010
Stanley J.
July 18, 1939
Sept. 7, 2016"
"Stanley J Wysocki
SPS US Army
July 18, 1939
Sep. 7, 2016"
Cross at the rear center of the cemetery
All photos copyright by the author, 2023. Not to be used or reproduced without permission.
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