Cherishing Chapin history: Residents take unfunded cemetery upkeep into their own hands

     Mavis Meyer brushed debris off of a rectangular headstone in the ground on a rainy Veterans Day to expose a name, birthdate, death date and that the man buried there was a veteran.

     Then, she placed a small American flag by the stone.

     The Old Chapin Cemetery sits on the rolling hills two miles west and a half-mile south of town, where Josiah B. Grinnell originally founded the city before moving it closer to the railroad that later came through.

     The cemetery includes veterans from the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, the Civil War and both World Wars. It isn’t along a highly trafficked road, but that didn’t stop Brad Greimann, Gordon Meyer, and Chapin Trustee Mavis Meyer from honoring the veterans buried there last week.

     Read the full article in the November 19 edition of the papers.

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