Charley Lent and I, met with Donald Owens, National Cemetery director, this afternoon. Some of the things that came out of the meeting are, we will be providing burial urns for ALL the National Cemeteries in NC, and Danville, VA. The urns will be stored at the Salisbury Cemetery Office.
It was decided the insignia of branch of service would look better on the front panel of the urn, and a slight recess should be countersunk by the urn builder, for positioning the insignia, which will be done by cemetery staff when the urn is placed into service. The NC WOODWORKER logo will be countersunk in the bottom.
It was decided that the interior of the urn should be large enough to accommodate either a cardboard box or plastic cremains container, eliminating the need to remove the ashes from the original container. The cemetery staff will not remove the ashes from the original container, so this would make placing the cremains in the urn much easier.
Charley Lent will check with our NCWW member, and funeral director Kevin, to determine if we need to change the dimensions of the urn. For those urns already made, they are ok, and the cemetery staff will work with them.
As far as quantities of urns needed, probably 12 urns immediately. Experience will tell us what to expect. The number of service insignias as follows, Army 6, Navy 6, Marines 4, Air Force 4, Coast Guard 2. These figures do not include the possibility of the program being implemented in the state veterans cemeteries.
We need to collect and place the NCWW insignias on the bottom, and then deliver the urns to the cemetery. Please post if you have an urn, or urns built, and we'll try to coordinate pony express to a central point or two. I'll drive as far as Greensboro to pick up urns.
Thanks everyone, for your help.
It was decided the insignia of branch of service would look better on the front panel of the urn, and a slight recess should be countersunk by the urn builder, for positioning the insignia, which will be done by cemetery staff when the urn is placed into service. The NC WOODWORKER logo will be countersunk in the bottom.
It was decided that the interior of the urn should be large enough to accommodate either a cardboard box or plastic cremains container, eliminating the need to remove the ashes from the original container. The cemetery staff will not remove the ashes from the original container, so this would make placing the cremains in the urn much easier.
Charley Lent will check with our NCWW member, and funeral director Kevin, to determine if we need to change the dimensions of the urn. For those urns already made, they are ok, and the cemetery staff will work with them.
As far as quantities of urns needed, probably 12 urns immediately. Experience will tell us what to expect. The number of service insignias as follows, Army 6, Navy 6, Marines 4, Air Force 4, Coast Guard 2. These figures do not include the possibility of the program being implemented in the state veterans cemeteries.
We need to collect and place the NCWW insignias on the bottom, and then deliver the urns to the cemetery. Please post if you have an urn, or urns built, and we'll try to coordinate pony express to a central point or two. I'll drive as far as Greensboro to pick up urns.
Thanks everyone, for your help.
