Supervisors: Rural Decorah family purchases burial plots in ‘Pioneer Cemetery’

By Zach Jensen,

A rural Decorah family has purchased plots in one of Winneshiek County’s Pioneer Cemeteries.

Janelle Halverson, a member of the Winneshiek County Pioneer Cemetery Commission reported to the Winneshiek County Board of Supervisors Nov. 20 that the commission has sold plots in the Big Canoe Methodist Cemetery, located about one mile east of Big Canoe Lutheran Cemetery, to Commissioner Halley Wise, Mr. and Mrs. David Wise and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wise. The three siblings’ parents, one aunt, an uncle and a sister are already buried in the cemetery, Halverson said.

According to information on the commission’s website, “The maintenance and repair of all cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the county, including pioneer cemeteries, are paid from the county general fund. The maintenance and improvement program for a pioneer cemetery may also include restoration and management of native prairie grasses and wildflowers.”

To be named a “Pioneer Cemetery”, 12 or fewer burials need to have taken place in a cemetery in the preceding 50 years. 

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