Author: Greenleaf Admin

Sponsor and purchase Wreaths online here www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/TX0412P

Veterans Day Program At Central Texas Veterans Memorial

The Brownwood Veterans Day program will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 at the Central Texas Veterans Memorial. State Senator, Dr. Dawn Buckingham, will be the keynote speaker.

Navy Commander Chaplain Jim Looby will dedicate a plaque honoring Brownwood veteran Norman Chesser who survived the Battan Death March. State Representative, Dr. Glenn Rogers, will dedicate a plaque honoring Major General Earl Rudder who was instrumental in the D Day Invasion on June 6, 1944. He was a former president of Texas A&M University and was a former mayor of Brady.

Masks and social distancing are appreciated. Some chairs are available but you may want to bring a lawn chair to maintain social distancing.

https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2020/10/30/veterans-day-program-at-central-texas-veterans-memorial-nov-11/

The Fourth Annual Holiday Trail Of Lights at Brownwood’s Historic Greenleaf Cemetery takes place this year on December 18, 19, 20 & 21 from 6 to 8pm.
(ENTER only @ Hwy. 377 S. Gate @ Sterling Monument and EXIT only @ Old Center Street Gate.)

No Entry Fee but donations are welcomed and appreciated!

Note: Please mark your calendars and share this post!

Sponsors & Community Partners:

KOHLER, Landmark Life, Brownwood Municipal Development District, Dale Nix/Roberts & Petty, Kirk Family Funeral Home, Davis Morris Funeral Home, Blaylock Funeral Home, Citizens National Bank, Draco’s Janitorial & Auto Detailing, Inc. , Sterling Monument, Heartland Funeral Home, Steves’ Market & Deli, Reed Memorial and KOXE/KBWD.

Special thanks to the
City of Brownwood and the City of Early!

If you would like to help Greenleaf Cemetery with a financial donation, please do so in one of the following ways:

Make checks payable to Greenleaf Cemetery.

Mail your check to

Greenleaf Cemetery    

P.O.Box 455    

Brownwood, Texas   76804-0455

Or donations by credit card can be made by calling our office at (325) 646 6919.

Shane Agan, Greenleaf’s Ground Supervisor, is reporting the City of Early funded road improvement project has begun. What a beautiful sight this is! On behalf of the GCA Staff and Board, I’d like to extend our great appreciation to City of Early officials for their investment in Historic Greenleaf Cemetery.

Steve Harris
GCA President (2017 to present)

If you so desire, your “Thank You” can be sent to:

City of Early
Attn. Tony Aaron and City Council
960 Early Blvd.
Early, TX
76802

Q: As a child, did you ever experience such thoughts while visiting Brownwood’s Historic Greenleaf Cemetery?

All cemetery gates are local!

“WHEN I WAS A BOY IN Raleigh I was afraid of being locked in Oakwood Cemetery overnight. Every Sunday after church, when our blue-tailed white Pontiac cruised through the entrance, I fretted about the sign posted above us: GATES LOCKED AT 6 PM. I never voiced this fear to my parents, but it hovered over me like a threatening storm cloud all afternoon. What if we lose track of the time? That could easily happen as we plucked dandelions from my grandfather’s grave or posed sullenly for Daddy’s never-ending slides, rigid as garden gnomes. Our family plot was on a rise with the other Nice Families, a respectable distance from the gate, so the caretaker, a runny-eyed old man who kept a spittoon in his granite cubbyhole, might overlook us when he left for home. That enormous gate would clang shut, and we would be trapped there all night, eating acorns for survival, drinking dew off the lilies—my brother, my sister, my parents, and me—Cemetery Family Robinson.

This was not your usual ghoulish graveyard terror, since I found the cemetery anything but spooky. I loved its winding lanes and tilting stones, the way its pale-green dells were flecked with pink in the spring. I reveled in its rich hieroglyphics, all those corroding angels and renegade jonquils, the palpable antiquity of the place. This was our family seat, after all, the ground to which I would return someday, permanently planted among my ancestors. So what was so scary about that? Folks in Raleigh might assume it had to do with the way my grandfather had died. But I wouldn’t learn about that until later, when I was well into my teens and the matter of why we came to the cemetery every Sunday would finally be explained. Even then, though, my focus would remain on the writing on the stones, not on what actually lay in the boxes beneath them.” Armistead Maupin

The Greenleaf Cemetery Association invites you to help us reach our 2020 goal of placing a wreath at every Veteran grave (1,500 plus) on the Greenleaf grounds. Your wreath sponsorships will also help raise much needed caretaking funds. Your sponsorships can be made online (below) or by mail if you prefer.

Wreath Individual Sponsorship ($15)
2 Wreaths ($30.00)
5 Wreaths ($75.00) *Most Popular
10 Wreaths ($150.00)

Mail Wreath Sponsorship payments to
Greenleaf Cemetery
P.O.Box 455
Brownwood, Texas
76804-0455

Deadline by mail is November 20th!

Sponsor and purchase Wreaths online here www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/TX0412P

https://www.brownwoodtexas.gov/572/4670/Mask-Up-Brownwood

Thank you City of Brownwood, Texas – Government for the assistance with the removal of seven drought plagued trees from the grounds at Greenleaf. The dedicated Greenleaf grounds crew appreciate the assistance as they keep quite busy with the daily perpetual care duties (mowing, weed eating, hand watering new trees, ground leveling, etc.) of 18,000 plus graves over 100 acres. Thank you “Team Greenleaf” (Walter, Ralph, Enrique, Jeffery and Shane) for the good works you do in an often difficult, daunting and overwhelming ☀️🌪❄️💦🌬☔️ environment.

Steve Harris
GCA Board President

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 4th annual Greenleaf Father’s Day Car Show has been postponed. While the postponement is disappointing to us all, we do hope you visit the cemetery and fondly reflect upon all Fathers laid to rest at Greenleaf. No matter the season, the dedicated Greenleaf grounds crew are working tirelessly to keep the grounds in great shape for your visits.

Welcome to Brownwood’s Historic Greenleaf Cemetery. The dedicated Greenleaf groundskeeping crew and volunteer Board Members work diligently year round to honor all who are laid to rest on this sacred land. We pay special tribute this weekend to the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.

“Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day 2020 occurs on Monday, May 25.

Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or memorials, holding family gatherings and participating in parades. Unofficially, it marks the beginning of the summer season.”

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/memorial-day-history

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