Friends of Glenwood Cemetery to Meet

Friends of Glenwood Cemetery

The Glenwood Cemetery at the corner of Middle Road and Cedar Avenue has been operating without a functioning board of directors or officers for over two years and no required annual board meeting for three years now. The groundskeepers have had trouble getting paid even though they have tried to keep the place up. This cemetery has historically been well run since it was founded in the 1890s. As it stands now, all directors have had their terms expire and it is coasting along but not very well.

A small group of people with relatives interred there or holding deeds to plots there have an interest in reforming the board of directors and officers as required by the original by-laws of the corporation. In order to do this, we are calling ourselves, at least temporarily, "The Friends of Glenwood Cemetery" in order to begin reconstruction of the organization required to operate the cemetery.

We will be having a meeting at the meeting room at the East Greenwich Free Library on Peirce Street on Thursday, September 5th at 5:30 PM. Everyone with an interest in Glenwood should attend and help reform this governing council. Board members must have a deed or represent an immediate family interred at Glenwood. If your deed(s) have been lost, we can check the records and re-issue you a new deed based upon the status of the plot. I might add that being on the board of Glenwood is only as much work as you want to put into it. Historically, there have been those who only go to the annual meeting to vote and those who also attend to chores within the cemetery. What is required is your interest and diligence. There is no pay, no fees, no dues. Just the desire to pick up where more responsible boards have left off.

Again, that meeting will be:

September 5th, 5:30 PM
at the
EG Free Library meeting room.

You do not have to have a deed to come and take part. This meeting is public and open to anyone interested in the cemetery and this includes neighbors who want to see the place kept up.

Alan F. Clarke, Angelo Lazarides, and others concerned.