"Very disappointed in the upkeep. The flat markers are not holding up as the gold accent color on the lettering has almost completely come off. The ground crews mow over the markers and leave cut grass all over them. Weeds have grown up to the point of climbing up the vases and growing across the markers. I was very upset to see the condition of my family's site and those around them."

Dionne S

"We are extremely dissatisfied with the grounds keeping at our parents grave. How disappointing to arrive and not be able to read the headstone because it is covered with crabgrass and mowing debris. We just cleaned this headstone in May and trimmed all the overgrown grass away from the edges. We have NEVER seen the condition of the cemetery to be so overgrown and weedy. This is not what my parents paid for when choosing Oaklawn Cemetery. In your business you need to respect the headstones and keep the grounds in good condition. You can buy crabgrass control products. It appears no one in management ever walks this cemetery to see if it is properly maintained. How sad."

Eloise Urban

"EDIT: 7/16/19 - Over a year now to heal from the loss of my Daddy, and we finally get with a local monument company and take time and tears to design his headstone. Another bench, because darn it, that's what we wanted. Well, that isn't good enough. Oaklawn is refusing to have this installed and says we need to change it. WHY?? This is a monument, made by a local monument maker who does headstones, that will be professionally installed, etc. Yet they STILL continue to jerk us around?? I am SO disappointed and frustrated that they have my Daddy in their so called "care." If I had known any of this would have happened, I would have NEVER trusted them for the care of my loved one!! Horrible!!

This is simply a business, in every sense of the word. Here, the almighty dollar reigns supreme. They have zero human compassion and empathy. I am so very disgusted, heartbroken and disappointed.

My precious Daddy has no marker yet. At this time, it's been 50 days since he passed. Only 7 weeks. I refuse to let the greatest influence in my life be so easily neglected, forgotten and grown over like just another dead spot on your lawn. His passing was sudden and completely unexpected. We are trying to find not only the funds to get a headstone placed but are also trying to simply function without him. We decided to place a temporary marker - a nice concrete bench with his last name until we can order the final marker. However, because we didn't pay the powers that be directly, so they themselves can line their own pockets in the process, we were ordered to remove it. The only other "option" we were given was to hand over a good deal of money for a headstone. Period.

I feel like I'm losing a bit of him all over again. My Daddy, husband of almost 41 years to my mother, father of one (me!) and "Papa" to 5 grand-boys, (the last two being twins who will never be able to meet this amazing man.) Because of the callous people who run this cemetery, the wounds are raw and fresh again.

Don't get me wrong, the sign could have been done without, that I could agree with, but even when we offered to remove just the sign, leaving just the bench, we were told that was not an option and that even close family members (my husband) "may need to be barred from further entry and not have access to our grounds.""

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