Holy Sepulchre Cemetery — Attraction in City of Rochester

I have three generations of family at your Cemetery. I'll say first it is a beautiful place. But I agree wholeheartedly with the other posts here about you ripping off our heart sent gifts to our loved ones at the graves we have purchased. Other cemeteries have postings that they clean off Graves every six months.. they post the dates that they do their cleanup. So family know that their gifts left at graves can only be there for a specific amount of time. And have due warning when those items will be removed if you don't do so yourself. That is fair to everyone involved. We can honor our loved ones.. And you get a clean slate Cemetery every few months. It's about the respect for our families buried there. You ripped off my mother's little expensive stone angel that my son left her and threw it in a trash heap. It was sitting on the ledge of her Stone for 5 years . Who was that harming ? It looked is though it was a part of the stone itself . Is that Catholic charity? Or dominance? Rethink...

My parents are buried side by side at Holy Sepulchre. My sister and I have added flowers and round, flat stones with personalized messages to the site in the past 4 years without incidence. The stones were tasteful and unobtrusive. One stone declared my father's remorse and devotion to Mom. Another was an actual passage from a reading at Mom's funeral. This summer all of the stones were removed without notice (I know they have our contact information based on the many mail requests for donations over the years). They were apparently deposited at the office in a location where people could 'shop' and were repurposed. Our belief was that once the cemetery received our payment for burial services and internment their future obligations only required that they cut the grass. Apparently, the money also entitled them to run a flea market with items from my...

Will never allow my family to place someone here again. I get wanting to keep a clean environment for the cemetery. But THROWING AWAY peoples special items they buy for their loved ones or even cherished memories they leave is absolutely outrageous. There HAS GOT TO BE a better solution than just throwing it away and not even informing the families of a clean up happening so they can have the opportunity to come get what they have left for people who are NO LONGER HERE WITH US. I am devistated. My family was JUST THERE and placed things with names engraved on them. We spend our money on these things to be placed there in memory and you people have the audacity to just throw it away like they are nothing. I did not want my family left here in the first place and this is another great...