Rules and regulations provide an important framework for the operation and maintenance of a cemetery.  However, cemeteries should retain the flexibility to revise their rules to adapt to changes in operations, business and customs.   It’s difficult to understand why a cemetery would risk complaints and the prospect of losing business by rigidly adhering to a set of rules and regulations that are almost 80 years old.

It’s the family’s names that are etched in stone, not the cemetery rules and regulations.