Unparallelled work of husband-wife volunteer team ends on highest note.

 

At 10:30am on Saturday, October 31, Barb Andrulonis concluded a streak that will never be surpassed in the annals of Vine Lake Cemetery.  She had cleaned her 673rd gravestone, completing a dedicated and meticulous journey which began six years ago.  

 

Her husband Greg contributed just as fully over that span, choosing to reset slate and marble gravestones while cleaning a smaller number.  He worked on small and large ones, always asking which one was next. 

Greg Andrulonis, shown in the foreground, contributed enthusiasm and enterprise throughout his six years of volunteering.

Barb and Greg Andrulonis, aptly called the A-Team, recently moved to Florida where new home construction awaits them in Punta Gorda.  Medfield will miss their contributions to civic and school life, but none more than the legion of named markers in Vine Lake Cemetery. 

Since 2009, these two persons worked tirelessly to improve our gravescape.  The marble memorials which gleam in the clear light and the slate stones which now stand erect are the direct results of Greg and Barb's passionate commitment to make the cemetery a better place. 

Collectively the Trust and every visitor to the cemetery can now rise and with one voice express an over-whelming and heart-felt tribute: "You will be missed and thank you."

On Saturday October 17, the Ware memorial was introduced to the public for the first time since 1917 when it was shattered into 24 pieces.

Catch the slide show which tells this remarkable story from start to finish.

This spirited group of ladies from the Senior Center toured the cemetery on October 29 to learn about famous and noteworthy persons buried there.  Thank you for your interest!

This is the inscription on the memorial to Sarah Ann (Wild) Allen, daughter of Leroy and Miranda (Robbins) Wild, husband of Oliver Johnson Allen, and mother of Imogen, who died from consumption in Medfield on August 1, 1863 at age 25.  [Section A-4 Grave 326]

Charlotte Powell (shown in insert), a seventh great-grandaughter of John Turner (1620-1705), recently visited the cemetery to remember her second great-grandfather Charles Francis Turner (1817-1910) and her great-grandfather Emory Hollis Turner (1854-1949). 

Other family members interred in the lot are her second great-grandmother Eliza (Fairbanks) Turner (1823-1894), her great-grandaunts Harriet Eliza Turner (1846-1852) and Marion Minerva Turner (1863-1879), and her great-granduncle Charles Francis Turner, Jr. (1851-1853).