Glenwood Memorial Cemetery

By StaffThursday, August 31, 2017¦ Lawrence E. Hiler, 78, Delta, died Aug. 30, 2017, at his home.Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Monday at the Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta. Services will take place at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Delta City Cemetery.Survivors include his wife, Sherry; one son, Kenneth of Port Jefferson, New York; two daughters, Melinda Hiler of Clifton and Tammie Knob of Grand Junction; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. ¦ Donald Kline, 89, Parachute, died Aug. 30, 2017, in Grand Junction.Visitation will take place at 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Brown’s Cremation and Funeral Service. Burial will follow at 1 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado. Survivors include his wife, Millicent; two sons, Brian of Glenwood Springs and Gary of Carlsbad, California; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)

Instead of focusing on the macabre and taking place over Halloween weekend, the new tour dubbed "Miners and Their Families" will be held Sunday, Sept. 3, over Miner's Day weekend, said Park City Museum Education Director Diane Knispel."We're doing it this way because we think it's about locals' history and we wanted it to be about locals," Knispel said during an interview with The Park Record. "We want to allow people to see the cemetery and hear the stories of those who lived and died in Park City during the mining era."There will be two sessions, one at 10:45 a.m. and the other at 12:15 p.m. The tours will cost $10 per person and are appropriate for ages 10 years and older. No pets will be allowed on the tours.Tickets can be purchased in advance by visiting http://www.parkcityhistory.org. Money from ticket purchases will go back into maintaining the cemetery."We're not giving tickets out the day of the tours," Knipsel said. "It will all be taken care of in advance."Recommended Stories For YouThe museum will send out an email to those who purchased tickets a day before the tour with parking information."We can accommodate 84 people per tour," Knispel said. "We will then separate the people into 12 groups."The groups, which will be led by Park City Museum docents, will walk to different graves, to hear the history of the people who are buried under the headstones."We have seven graves that they will rotate to," Knispel said.The information will be give by other volunteers who are dressed as their subjects.This year's tour will focus on past Park City residents Nels Blomgren, John Witta, John Nimmo, Ellen Mawhinney, Rebecca Simmons, Alex Smith and Harriet Truscott.There are approximately 900 graves in the cemetery, which is located off Silver King Drive in Thaynes Canyon."We have a list of everyone who is buried in the cemetery, and we narrowed the list down to these people were either miners or members of their families," Knispel said.Volunteers received scripts of their characters two weeks ago."Some of the volunteers me... (The Park Record)