03/07/13 Jim Ousnamer, Superintendent of Oakhill Cemetery announces Spring Clean-up. All flowers and winter ornaments should be removed from grave sites by Monday, March 18th. Residents are asked to pick up any arrangements or ornaments they wish to keep before that date. Clean-up at Oak Hill Cemetery will run Monday, March 18th through...
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03/07/12 Plymouth’s Cemetery Superintendent, Jim Ousnamer has announced the annual clean-up for Oak Hill Cemetery. To facilitate spring cleaning at Oak Hill Cemetery, flowers and winter ornaments should be removed from grave sites before Monday, March 19th. Residents are asked to pick-up and arrangements or ornaments they wish to keep before that date....
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8/10/11 The Plymouth Common Council approved ordinance 2011-2023 on second and third reading Monday night that will allow for the inclusion of the Gracelawn addition to the New Oak Hill Cemetery. There are 864 grave spaces in the addition that will be located to the west and south of the office and Chapel. The...
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08/10/11 A resolution providing the transfer of an appropriation in the General Fund of the City for the Police department was passed unanimously by Council members, the matter did not go without some discussion. Monday night a transfer of $13,497 was allowed from the Police Department personnel services line item to capital outlay. Plymouth...
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10/07/10 Plymouth Mayor Mark Senter held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce the arrest of two suspects for the vandalism in Oak Hill Cemetery. Early Sunday morning September 26th approximately 110 gravestones were damaged by vandals. More than 20 of the gravestones were damaged beyond repair. Damage is estimated to be more than...
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10/04/10 Friday afternoon Plymouth Mayor Mark Senter and Cemetery Superintendent Jim Ousnamer along with Plymouth Police Chief Jim Cox and Investigator Ted Brown held a press conference to announced a substantial increase to the reward fund for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons involved in last week’s...
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10/01/10 Thanks to more private donations, the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for the damage to the Oakhill Cemetery has been elevated to $2,500. On Sunday, September 26th approximately 110 gravestones were damaged by vandals. More than 30 of them were damaged beyond repair. Later in...
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09/29/10 Thanks to private donations, there is a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for the damage to the Oakhill Cemetery. On Sunday, September 26th approximately 110 gravestones were damaged by vandals. More than 22 of them were damaged beyond repair. Later in the day Tri-Kappa...
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09/28/10 City employees began the tedious task of resetting dozens of tombstones in Oak Hill Cemetery Monday. During the late night hours of Saturday or early Sunday morning approximately 100 headstones, monuments and grave markers were toppled over, pushed off their foundations and even smashed into pieces. Cemetery Superintendent Jim Ousnamer met with police...
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09/27/10 Oak Hill Cemetery in Plymouth was vandalized Saturday night or early Sunday morning with dozens of tombstones being tipped over, broken off or destroyed. The totals are not in but members of Tri Kappa are saying that more that 60 grave sites in the older section of the cemetery were victims of vandalism....
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