To Our Valued Community Members,
We are reaching out to you to notify you of our Autumn Cemetery Clean Up. You may have seen our signs posted around our property or our notifications on social media of this upcoming event. We will be breaking the Clean Up into 12 weeks during which time we will slowly move through our Memorial Park. This will be a time to not only clean and maintain grave spaces and gardens, but also to reset location finder pins, verify proper working of irrigation, address damage, and do regular lawn maintenance.
We will be asking the community to temporarily remove decorations from their loved ones’ graves prior to our entry into the scheduled sections. Should family and friends be unavailable or unable to remove decorations, we will carefully remove decorations and place them in bags and boxes with identification of the grave that they belong with noted on a tag. Care will be taken so as not to damage any articles placed on graves, and to keep all items contained and available. We will bundle fences and attach them to the parcels for easy access and keep the parcels close to the original grave location whenever possible. Decorations from larger, more heavily decorated gardens may need to be placed a small distance from the garden, but we will be placing them in a manner that makes them easy to find. Staff will be available to give items to families or assist in receiving items from their holding location. Unfortunately, we will not be able to replace items on graves, but we will work diligently to treat all items with care and concern to make it as easy as possible to redecorate. Fresh flowers will be left in vases at the grave location.
Starting the week of each garden’s clean up, we will be re-enforcing page 27 Section XIV.2.e-f AND page 27 Section XIV.2.f-g from our Rules and Regulations and General Information for Owner(s) of Interment Rights of Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Hayward, California
(available in full upon request).
***A map
and schedule
are attached for ease of use.***
Please be aware: we will remove and dispose of items that are broken, are in extreme disrepair, or pose a hazard. Glass vases are not permitted in any garden, but we will make plastic vases available to you should you wish to trade in your glass ones. Any items not on the marker itself will be placed, to our best ability, on the marker. In cases of larger quantities of memorabilia, items will be boxed or bagged as usual. After the conclusion of the Autumn Clean-Up, property not replaced on graves will be held in an easily accessible area for a time. We will bear in mind that for many families, regular visits are not possible, and property may be held until the next clean-up.
Please reach out with questions or concerns and our staff will be able to assist. If you would like to be notified of future clean-ups, please submit a request with your contact information in the
Contact Us
portion of our website.
www.hayward.chapelofthechimes.com
510-471-3363
