MN family digs grave for their own gravedigger father

What a tribute to their deceased father.

“RICHMOND, Minn. — On Wednesday afternoon at Sts. Peter and Paul cemetery in Richmond, Harold Hemmesch’s family gathered to dig his grave.It wasn’t the first time Hemmesch’s children dug into the ground of the cemetery. Their father had been a gravedigger for 50 years, and they had all grown up helping him dig graves.” Richmond is in the St. Cloud, Minnesota area in central Minnesota.

The other heartwarming part of this story is the wonderful care that Harold gave to this cemetery. Click here to read the full story on the website of the Twin Cities’ TV station, KARE11.

If you have St. Cloud area ancestry (Benton, Sherburne, and Stearns counties), you might be interested in the cemetery compilation of the St. Cloud Area Genealogists. It was very helpful in researching my brother-in-law’s ancestry.

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Thank you for this information. The St. Peter & Paul’s Cemetery is the first place where I had EVER seen more than one gravestone with my maiden name, Willenbring. Other researchers might like to read the history of the parish that is posted at http://www.ssppr.com/parish_history