Gate of Heaven is done

GATE OF HEAVEN Cemetery

Albuquerque, New Mexico

        

                                            

We have finished re-walking one of our favorite cemeteries - Gate of Heaven. This beautiful cemetery is one of the three regular large ones we keep up to date in Albuquerque. It is a favorite of everyone because it is green, has lots of shade, conveniently located (not too far for any of us to drive), and can be re-walked in 3 months. There is a wonderful sense of peace here.


We added 1008 burials to the update this time. The last time we were here it was late 2007. There are 8,871 names at this cemetery as of the end of May 2011.

Mount Calvary is the sister cemetery of Gate of Heaven and we finished re-walking that in 2009. Sunset Memorial is the third cemetery we regularly re-walk and it will be on our schedule for 2011 when the weather cools down. Both of these are considerably larger than Gate of Heaven and will take 1-2 years for their rewalks. But we only work on the grounds of a cemetery about 6 months out of a year, typically February to May and then again late September to late November or early December. We are irrevocably linked to the weather. When it gets above 80 degrees, or below 50 degrees, we retreat to the library.  Not that we are chickens, but it isn't fun to write when your fingers are too cold to move, nor when the sun beats down on you unmercifully. 

Those working Gate of Heaven were Wink Winkeljohn, Gloria Henderson, Betty Lamberti, Sharon Serrano, Diane Bloom, Lee Miller, Barb Borowy and Rich Harris.