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Tod Cemetery Building a $700K Columbarium Garden
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Tod Homestead Cemetery is constructing a new columbarium memorial garden, a $700,000 investment to accommodate the growing practice of cremation.
The two-acre feature is designed as a “place for repose and reflection,” states an announcement from the cemetery’s governing body. It will include a fountain, landscaping, walkways and 10 low-profile structures with a total of 960 spaces for cremation remains. Completion is scheduled for this fall.
“We are very pleased to be in a position to make this important investment,” said Sallie Tod Dutton, president of the Tod Homestead Cemetery Association. “We are grateful to be able to carry on the legacy of Gov. Tod and his son, George Tod, to create a place of repose and reflection for the people of the Mahoning Valley.
The cemetery, established in 1908 by the Tod family, offers options for cremation today in its mausoleum and traditional burial spaces. The columbarium garden will expand those options.
The garden was designed by veteran Youngstown architect Paul J. Ricciuti, with support from Behnke Landscape Architecture, a Cleveland firm with expertise in cemeteries and gardens. The general contractor for the project is Marucci and Gaffney Excavating of Youngstown.
Tod Homestead Cemetery, 2200 Belmont Ave., is the final resting place to more than 35,000 people of all faiths and ethnic origins. The park-like setting is managed by the Tod Homestead Cemetery Association, a nonprofit organization established in 1908 by descendants of David Tod, a Youngstown native and Ohio’s Civil War governor.
The Tod family, one of the Mahoning Valley’s leading philanthropic families for generations, still leads the association, with Sallie Tod Dutton, David Tod’s great-great-granddaughter, serving as president and her cousin, David Tod II, serving as treasurer. Two other cousins, Frederica Owsley Fiffick and Lili Tod McMillan, also serve on the association’s board.
PICTURED: Architect Paul J. Ricciuti.
SOURCE: Tod Homestead Cemetery Association.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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