Jewish Baby Graves We Have Adopted: a Virtual Cemetery

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A Virtual Cemetery created by Bonita Isabella

Jewish Baby Graves We Have Adopted

One year, the women in my family were making our annual visit to tend to family graves. We found ourselves in a section of the cemetery where there was only one grave that belonged to us. As my sister lovingly tended to her husband's grave, we noticed that one of my nieces had stepped across a row of trees into another section of the cemetery and was digging the sod away from the planting area of a Jewish baby grave. Every year since then, when we return to visit my brother-in-law's grave, several of us step into the next section and take care of our "adopted" Jewish baby graves.

3 memorials

Michell L Kaye Flowers have been left.

14 Nov 1953 – 7 Dec 1953

Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

Plot info: Old BCC, 2 East, Row N, Plot 1B

Edward Bernard Shain Flowers have been left.

26 Sep 1923 – 26 Oct 1923

Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

Plot info: Old BCC, 2 East, Row M, Plot 7

Bernice Babette Sidelsky Flowers have been left.

16 Jul 1921 – 11 Jan 1923

Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

Plot info: Old BCC, 2 East, Row L, Plot 9