Calvary Cemetery & Mausoleum — Local services in St. Louis

My father just passed away and I called Calvary Cemetery to find out about getting a plaque placed next to his parents, who are memorialized there on, or near, the grave of my great grandfather. The person I spoke with told me that I had to prove I was a direct descendant of the person who held the account for the family plot. He gave me her name, but I have never heard of her before. I mentioned that if my great grandfather and both my grand parents are either buried or memorialized there, how could I not be a direct descendant of the person whom he claimed held the family plots? Well, It turns out she is my great, great grandmother. So, I need to contact her to get permission. Does anyone know of a good app to communicate with those existing in the great beyond? As I've been taking care of the odds and ends of my father's passing, I've been greeting with nothing but empathy from people at organizations I've contacted — with this one exception. I suppose the man who I talked with could have been having a bad day — although, I don't see how it can be worse than the past few days I've had. My advice to people who run Calvary Cemetery is to at least act like you care. It seems like that's your business. And the guy who I spoke to was very, very...

Very sad. Found out my grandmother had a mausoleum there, great, no not great at all. One of the bronze doors had been pried off and stolen. Not the first one, probably the sixteenth different one, along with the huge cooper pipe for the air conditioned cremation room. I was told I had to pay to fix the mausoleum. My grandmother also had bought lots of lots around her so our family would be buried there, none of us have been,,,,, but we can’t sell the lots she bought only donate them to the cemetery. I was promised that security cameras would go up, 3 years later nothing. Funny how Bellafont cemetery has had no problems, oh yeah, they have security. Only the tip of the problems I had with the cemetery. Very sad since my grandmother also paid for...

A jaw dropping experience awaits for anyone going to Calvary the first time. The place is massive to the tune of 470 acres. That's almost not right smack in the middle of Saint Louis. Forest Park is 1400 acres and Central Park is 900 acres. They are larger, but 500 for dead people is insane. Anyways, there are plenty of famous people, wildlife, and available grounds for another 200 years of burials. To that point, the Conservation Commission of Missouri has a 100 year lease on a portion of the cemetery. It is one of the few or only area in the state of Missouri that is untouched by man as it was in the time of...