Chestnut Hill Cemetery Displays of Love

We the undersigned request Chestnut Hill Cemetery Board in Doylestown, Ohio, to review their non-dated computer print out of rules and regulations that were posted in January 2007.

Those of us who have loved ones in the cemetery, as well as those who do not, are standing together for the continuance of our displays of love and loss; as these displays were so acceptable and permitted prior to the January 2007 tree postings.

We are questioning the possibility that existing plot displays, should be grand fathered in. As in some of our cases we have been displaying the same items on gravesites, that are now unacceptable, since 1960 and beyond. Those displays have been appropriate, acceptable, and permitted prior to this most recent posting on the trees.

Several of us have been placing flowers both live and artificial, hung windchimes on shepherd hooks, placed child toys, stuffed animals, holiday and seasonal decorations, shepherd hooks with flowers, wreaths, left laminated cards and letters, photos and many unique items that personalize the gravesite and express our love and loss of loved ones for many years.

Our small and insignificant public displays around the gravesite of our loved one is all we have left.

The listed signatures below is our way of asking for you to please reconsider what you are asking. We need the therapy of maintaining a gravesite that allows us to personalize and express to the world our love for the ones we have lost in an appropriate manner.