700 LOCUST STREET
COLUMBIA, PA 17512
Friends of the Cemetery
The Friends of Mount Bethel Cemetery is made up of donors to the cemetery maintenance, both financial and those who volunteer their time to the upkeep of the grounds. We rely solely on The Friends to continue our work and maintain the cemetery. If you are already on our Friends list, please consider an increase in your contribution this year, and/or consider a "Leave A Legacy" bequest to the cemetery in your will so that we can meet the many challenges that lie ahead.
The support of our Friends has allowed the following and ongoing accomplishments at Mount Bethel Cemetery in recent years:
- existing roads re-paved
- major remodeling of the caretaker's cottage
- Helen Schlossman Memorial Garden for cremations
- benches placed throughout the cemetery
- ongoing re-setting of stones
- employ people to mow lawn
- burial records since 1868 transferred to computer data base
- fence stabilized
- volunteers rake leaves and spray weeds every year
Our plans for the future include:
- rebuilding several lawn crypts
- paved road sealing
- having a landscape plan drawn for the cemetery
- planting trees
- continuing to stabilize stones
- renovation of the second floor of the caretaker's cottage
Mt. Bethel Cemetery Shed Replacement Project
The current shed is in need of a new roof and other improvements to make it into a usable building for storing the cemetery's equipment. The shed is over 100 years old. In the Spring of 2015 the Board decided to replace the shed with a new one. In the Fall of 2015 donations were solicited. Following is a list of contributors to this important project.
Completion of the new shed is expected in early fall of 2016.
Donors Listed below.
- Loyal Order of Moose - Chickies Rock Lodge = $1,000
- Mr & Mrs Charles Gerfin = $100
- Mr & Mrs Glenn S Banner = $300
- Mr Wilson Bucher = $50
- Mr Philip H. Glaifelfter = $200
- Mr Patrick M. Donan = $200
- Mr William Kraft = $35
- Mr & Mrs Wendell B Stockdale = $50
- Columbia Lions Club = $500
- Columbia/ Middletown Elks = $1,000
- Mr & Mrs Thomas Lawson = $30
- Jay H Lutz & Co. = $50
- Mr Frank Doutrich = $100
- Gamby's Disposal = $1,000
- Sunsnappers = $250
- Clyde W Kraft Funeral Home, Inc. = $500
- Catholic War Veterans = $100
- Mr Dennis Wolpert = $100
- Columbia Fraternal Association = $500
- Foresters of America = $300
- Mr & Mrs Kenneth Kramer = $50
- Mr & Mrs Ronald Mable = $100
- Mr Dean Little = $100
- Workman Funeral Homes, Inc. = $50
- Mr & Mrs John Hinkle, Jr. = $250
- Columbia Park Rangers = $500
- Mr & Mrs Albert Storm = $100
- Nikolaus & Hohenadel LLP = $150
- Paul Revere Leber Post # 3 72 = $1,000
- Granny Arendt = $600
- Mussers Supply Inc = $1200
- Total = $10,465
| 2012-Present Donors List
ANGEL - $500 AND UP
CARE TAKER - $250-$499
CHERUB $10-$249
In-Kind Donors
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Business/Corporate Sponsorship 2012-Present
PLATINUM -- $1,000 AND UP
GOLD -- $500 TO $999 SILVER -- $200 TO $499
BRONZE -- $25 TO $199
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