Sally and Bruce Donovan led a Gravestone Repair Workshop on May 23th 2010. Many community members showed up ready to work on the gravestones which had come apart from their bases and plinths. George Evans’ gravestone, which had been missing from the cemetery for 40 years, was driven across town by Duane Blanchard in the back of his garden trailer and returned to the Pioneer Cemetery.  The gravestone was promptly repaired and put back in the ground. Penny Kennedy used dowsing rods to locate unmarked graves.

The Dalles Chronicle: Headstone Repair Workshop

Setting the base.

Setting the gravestone.

Setting the plinth.

Repair of Myra and Edith Prather’s Headstone

Repairing Myra and Edith