Cemetery Sunday

St. James Cemetery, Seaforth

St. James Cemetery, Seaforth will be celebrating Cemetery Sunday, again on the first Sunday in August this year being Sunday, August 4th. Mass will be celebrated at St. James Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. Tents will be provided for your shelter from the sun or rain. Please bring a lawn chair. Weather contingency location will be

St. James Church.

A donation envelope is available for your ongoing support of the Care and Maintenance of the Cemetery, and using this envelope will entitle you to a receipt at year-end from the Parish, incorporated with all other Parish donations. Your financial support would be most greatly appreciated.

St. James Cemetery Board Members:

Parish Administrator:Fr. Philip Joseph

Chair:Eleanor Devereaux

Directors:Pat DeJong, Don Sills

Secretary/Treasurer:Greg O’Reilly

Superintendent:John Devereaux

Special thanks to Pat DeJong, Ron Janmaat, and the Knights of Columbus for the tent donations, chairs and delicious bacon-on-a bun!

The Knights of Columbus will be providing bacon-on-a-bun on location after Mass.

St. James Cemetery Board has recently approved and proceeded with improvements at the Cemetery, specifically in the (new) North section.

The (previous) second row of tombstones from the left was deemed to be too close together, and so a new foundation row was installed to the left (west) of this previous second row. Tombstones from the previous 2nd row were then relocated to the new foundation at the head of the graves and turned to face east, looking over each respective grave(s). This relocation results in the de-cluttering of the previous second row, and now all rows in this North section have their headstones at the head of the graves, facing east, and spaces out the headstones in both and all rows.

Your generous financial support over the previous few years provided the funds to accomplish this improvement.