OAKLAND — A granite bench on Hiller Drive now bears the name of fallen Oakland Fire Battalion Chief James M. Riley Jr., who died on duty in the 1991 Oakland hills firestorm. The bench was dedicated at ...

A plaque and two new benches will be dedicated Sept. 12 in a ceremony hosted by the docents of Santa Margarita y las Flores at the Camp Pendleton Veterans Memorial Garden across from the Pacific View ...

The memorial at the 4th Brigade Combat Team headquarters received an addition last Tuesday of an Operation Iraqi Freedom V-VII memorial bench. "The bench helps finish off the Currahee memorial that ...

Nearly every day in the last years of his life, Casimir Paugys drove to Thatcher Woods Forest Preserve in River Forest, sat in his car, read the paper and enjoyed the placid pond and nature center ...

SPRINGFIELD — “My mom would have been so honored by this, but she also would have been so embarrassed by the commotion,” Tom Ashe said of his mother Mary Ashe, as Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and Parks ...

If you’re dealing with the loss of a loved one, planting a memorial garden can be a helpful outlet for your grief. Not only does the act of gardening provide a sense of ease, but the finished result ...

In Berkeley, the city bureaucracy extends to the dead. The City Council on Tuesday will consider strictly limiting the number of park benches the public can donate in honor of departed loved ones, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A life-sized preview of the Emanuel Nine Memorial’s fellowship benches are installed at Mother Emanuel. The bench, which is constructed of Vermont Danby Pearl marble, sits on ...