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Osoyoos Lakeview Cemetery
Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
176th Ave North, Osoyoos BC
Lat: 49° 03' 51"N, Lon: 119° 31' 03"W
Contributed by Maggie Rail, Aug 26, 2003, last edited Mar 20, 2007
[mrail@asisna.com]. Total
records = 1,434.
To reach cemetery take Hwy 97 north, through Osoyoos to 176th Ave.
Turn right and the cemetery will be on your left across from an
orchard. Actually an orchard is on the north side also, overlooking
the north end of Osoyoos Lake on the east side of the cemetery.
This is the cemetery for the city of Osoyoos, British Columbia.
It is owned and maintained by the city. It consists of more than
one section. One was the Catholic section, another was the Cremains
section, and lawn.
At the north end of the cemetery on the lake side is the first
cemetery which now is called the Pioneer Cemetery. It is not a
separate cemetery, though it has a name as such. They call it
the pioneer section.
I have divided them up as best as I could. I may be off a bit,
so please do not hold it against me if I have one in the lawn
section that should be in the monumental section. I thought it
might be more helpful to find them later. I did not use any information
from the city. They would have it totally different.
What I mean by monumental is, these areas are primarily cement.
They cover the whole burial area with cement and place the headstone
at one end of it. They are not necessarily tall, but they are
without any lawn around them. A photo is at the right of this
type. Lawn are all flat in the grass and very hard to read, because
they do not clean around them only once or twice a year. It is
kept groomed as far as mowing the lawn, but one needs to pull
grass away to find what is on the markers.
I walked and read this cemetery on Aug 17-18, 2003, using my
digital camera. This includes all existing headstones. I would
be happy to share my photos, if someone would like one of a family
member's stone. I found a few names in the death records, which
have no photo or marker.
- Maggie Rail
Legend:
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b. = born
d. = died
d/o = dau of
h/o = h/o
s/o = son of
s/by = stone by
s/w = stone with
w/o = wife of
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Sec C = Cremains
Sec P = Pioneer
Sec SWM = Southwest Monumental
Sec NL = North Lawn
Sec SWL = Southwest Lawn
Sec CL = Catholic Lawn
Sec CM = Catholic Monumental
NM = No marker
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