Marshall cemetery

Spokane cemeteries have different cultural traditions and must provide regulations regarding funeral decorations. Families tended to gravesites at Marshall Cemetery on May 23, 2017.

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Sat., May 27, 2017

Graves at the Marshall Cemetery are adorned with flowers and other items for Memorial Day.

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Charles and Kathryn Thomas, along with Donna Alford, right, visit the grave of Charles’ mother, Eloise Thomas, May 23, 2017, at the Marshall Cemetery. Alford lived next door to Eloise in Spokane and would accompany her to the area cemeteries to place flowers on graves of loved ones. Alford wears red in honor of EloiseÕs favorite color. She died this past March.

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Pat and Diane Sullivan operate the Marshall Cemetery on Melville Road. Her great uncle Eligah Eldridge left money from his wheat farm to keep the cemetery open and running.

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Diane Sullivan trims dead branches from a bush at the Marshall Cemetery, May 23,2017. The tall grave marker at right is one of the oldest graves on the property where Daniel Goodsell was buried in 1894.

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Crossses at the Marshall Cemetery mark the graves of five boys that died in a house fire during the 1920s.

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Kathleen Garman clears away dead flower stems from the grave of Chad The Hotdog Man Rattray, May 23, 2017 at the Marshall Cemetery. Garmans family operates the cemetery, located on Melville Road.

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Toy cars, a solar light and an angel are placed next to the child grave of Jack Daniel Anderson who died a few months short of his 5 birthday in 1989. He is buried at the family-owned Marshall Cemetery on Melville Road.

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Diane Sullivan walks past the a family burial plot at the Marshall Cemetery, May 23, 2017. The Sullivan family operates the cemetery on Melville Road.

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Pat and Diane Sullivan, along with their daughter, Kathleen Garman, operate the Marshall Cemetery on Melville Road.

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Charles Thomas arranges his home-grown rhododendrons on plot marker for the Rupp family, May 23, 2017, at the Marshall Cemetery. His mothers grave is at right with the red flowers.

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A sign near the entrance of the Marshall Cemetery warns dog walkers away from the grounds.

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