Mausoleum for Golden Cemetery Proposed To City Council
Colorado Transcript - April 19, 1962
64 Years Ago
During the spring of 1962, City Council was considering a proposal by an El Paso, Texas firm to add a mausoleum to the Golden cemetery. A salesman approached the City in April of that year. He explained that, while his company would take a cut of all crypt sales, the City would net about $7,000/year (provided that enough people died and bought crypts).
Maintenance Fund Problem For Cemetery
Colorado Transcript - May 3, 1962
The cemetery fund tended to run at a deficit, and the idea of finding a new revenue source was appealing. At that time, only graves that had been sold with an additional charge for "perpetual care" were seeded, watered, and mowed. This made for a strange hodge-podge of mown and unmown graves, and it was a headache to track which "residents" had paid and which had not. Ideally, the City would have preferred to scrap the differentiated system and just care for the whole cemetery equally--but there wasn't enough money in the cemetery fund to do that.
Mausoleum Negotiations Will Proceed
Colorado Transcript - May 17, 1962
When the salesman came calling, with promises of extra revenue, Council had to consider the matter. A subcommittee of Councilors studied the proposal, talked with managers of other cemeteries in the area, and in the end, concluded that they would be better off raising the rates for all cemetery plots.
Mausoleum Proposal Is Dropped
Colorado Transcript - June 14, 1962
By the mid-1990s, the perpetual care fund was finally generating enough revenue to fund care for the cemetery as a whole.
Speaking of the Cemetery:
Volunteers are needed for Memorial Day flag and flower placement.
The City of Golden is working to fill volunteer slots to help prep the Golden Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day. Volunteers are needed on Tuesday, May 19, starting at 10:00 a.m., at the Golden Cemetery, 755 Ulysses St, Golden. Sign up: https://forms.office.com/g/RaLAqZ2a9y?utm_name=sked
