Stone Angels Project

04/19/2026

Hey all…I’ve been contacted by a scout troop looking for Eagle Scout projects near Lincoln, Nebraska. Rural cemeteries that need help with clean-up or something like building a directory have been projects in the past—something that involves more than just muscle, generally, but also skill. Please contact me directly if you have need of an Eagle Scout in your cemetery. Thanks so much.
Shannon

04/14/2026

We wanted to follow up last week's with an image from this angle. From the air, you can see the distance from finished grade to the edge is a significant amount of granite. As you start to see more of the Horse's Mane revealed, hopefully this gives some insight on the amount of rock (height, width and depth) that has been taken away.

03/01/2026

How cool is this?

A grave Stone I carved long ago, family wanted the saddle so the kids could sit when they visited grandpa

11/12/2025

So cool!

Amazing! - Today, November 11, at exactly 11:11 am -- and every single Veteran’s Day -- the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veteran’s Memorial in Arizona to shine through the ellipses of the five marble pillars representing each branch of the Armed Forces, illuminating The Great Seal of the 🇺🇸 United States!

07/14/2025

05/30/2025

How fun!

02/17/2025

Can you go?

Registration for the 2025 Association for Gravestone Studies Conference is open! June 17 - June 22, 2025 in York, PA. Join your fellow taphophiles for lectures, tours, awards, workshops, roundtables, late night, and more! All are welcome - preservationists, educators, and fellow cemetery lovers of all kind! https://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences/2025-conference-york-pa

02/10/2025

01/17/2025

Wow…

This is one of the finest gravestones that Josiah Manning ever carved. It is located at Old Mansfield Center Cemetery in Mansfield, Connecticut, and it marks the grave of Huckens Storrs, who died in 1784. The above-ground portion of the lengthy inscription reads:

In Memory of Mr. Huckens
Storrs who on ye 18th of Aug’st
AD 1784 Departed this Life in
ye 79th year of his Age; leave
ing behind him well ground
ed Hopes of his Resurection
to eternal Life, his Surviving
Posterity may here recollect
ye ankcious Concerns of a ten
der Parent for there eternal
Welfare. As a Husband kind
As a Parent tender & Compa-
sionate, as a Friend Sincere
In whatever Station or Carack
ter in Life; whether as a
Senator a Citizen or in his
Private Capasaty he exhibi-
ted ye Carackter of a faith-

11/29/2024

How sad!

Each year, about 630 people die in Gallatin County. Some go unclaimed at the funeral home or coroner’s office, despite many attempts to locate family, friends, or others willing to make arrangements. When no one is found, the unclaimed are cremated, and their remains stored.

Over the years, many unclaimed urns have been kept at Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service and the Gallatin County Coroner’s Office. These individuals deserve to be respectfully laid to rest. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 1:30 PM, 66 unclaimed urns will be buried at Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman. This graveside service, open to the public, will include a reading of names and a prayer by the Gallatin County Chaplain.

The urns date from 1922 to 2020. A list of 63 public names and their years of death is available below. Some names are omitted, including those of infants, unidentified remains, and individuals who requested burial with the unclaimed. Five veterans (denoted by *) will be honored in a separate ceremony. If you recognize a name and can verify a connection, you may retrieve the urn before the burial.

Public Names
Clark Allen (2010), Dagmar Arctander (1973), Carl Arctander (1973), Arthur Bartosch (1995), Frank Bimrose (1965), Marie Bimrose (1960), Mary Brehl (1929), Cheryl Brooks (2005), Walter Cattrell (1950), Dale Christensen* (1955), Melvin Clouse (2007), Katharine Cobb (1989), Beatrice Copeland (2003), George Covey (1981), Edrie Cronin (1969), George Cutler (1996), Arleen Danielson (2004), Sir Roderque Ellis (1944), Fred Fallet (1996), Charlotte Fillbach (2000), Fay Fisher (1987), Thomas Gilkerson (1968), Rose Hablow (1990), Frank Hahn (2016), Lawrence Harner (1975), Harriet Hunt (1959), Ruth Jespersen (1957), Larry Jones (2011), Marvin Jones* (1968), Blanche Landau (1948), Lilliam Laukala (1994), Steven Leffler (2004), Casilda Lenci (2008), Peter Longo (2020), Cora Loraine (1972), F***y Loth (1953), Werner Lundin* (1994), Janet MacIver (1983), James Mantel (2009), Rebecca Mantel (2000), Gary Marks (2019), Alvina McManus (1981), Cavour McMillian* (1997), Evelyn Monroe (1991), Edward Morris* (1967), Joseph Myhre (2009), Stephen Nile (1981), Richard Panzloff (2006), Louise Poro (1990), Susan Quayle (2007), Anne Riddle (1978), Maybelle Rockefeller (1976), Mary Scott (1999), Viola Shivvers (1998), Margaret Smith (1989), William Smith (1999), James Stephens (2004), Diana Stover (1976), Corinne Taplin (1984), Minnie Thrasher (1960), Marjorie Vardalis (1981), Ruth Williamson (2006), Dorothy Young (1997).

Thank you to:

- Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service for storing the urns, donating the outer burial container, and coordinating this effort
- the City of Bozeman for donating the burial plot, opening, and closing the grave site
- Langohr's Flowerland for donating the flower arrangements for the burial service

For more information, contact Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service at 406-587-3184 or the Gallatin County Coroner’s Office at 406-582-2178.