San Diego Gravesite Custodial

05/03/2018

Spring cleaning the Bum & Bobby bronze statues in front of the William Heath Davis House (April 21, 2018).

12/08/2016

Today the staff of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum placed this white rose on my sister’s name at the North Tower pool marking what would have been her 44th birthday. It is in Cindy’s memory that I have built San Diego Gravesite Custodial. The perpetual care of Cindy’s name at the Memorial Plaza is inspiring. It is what I hope to replicate here in San Diego by helping families remember their loved ones.

Happy Birthday Cindy. You will remain in our hearts and minds forever.

Cindy Ann Deuel
(December 7, 1972 - September 11, 2001)

Love Richie

10/17/2016

A Victorian Ghost Mystery - The Beautiful Stranger of Mount Hope CemeteryRichard Deuel http://sandiegograve.com/blog/2016/10/17/a-victorian-ghost-mystery-the-beautiful-stranger-of-mount-hope-cemetery

It’s that time of year again. Halloween. A time we should remember our dead. A mishmash of pagan and Christian traditions, the true origins and meaning of which are often overshadowed by the multimillion dollar industry which has grown up around this holiday in the United States. Then there is the m...

09/13/2016

9/11 Memories Richard Deuel http://sandiegograve.com/blog/2016/9/13/911-memories-2

In August of 2014 I wrote an article for the Ontario Genealogical Society's quarterly journal Families titled "How a Toronto Bookbindery Girl Named Lizzie Wyllie Became a National News Headline in 1892." This article covers the su***de of a mysterious young woman at the Hotel del Coronado and the co...

08/12/2016

08/12/2016

If you live in San Diego you've surely heard about the Hotel del Coronado's resident ghost named Kate Morgan. On Thanksgiving Day, November 24,1892, she checked into the hotel under the name Lottie A. Bernard from Detroit. Five days later she was found dead on an exterior staircase leading to the beach. Although it was determined that Kate died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, some have speculated that foul play was involved. Others have even suggested that the Beautiful Stranger, as she was referred to in the newspapers, was not Kate Morgan, but was in fact a Detroit runaway named Lizzie Wyllie.

In the August 2014 issue of Families published by the Ontario Genealogical Society, I wrote an article in which I put to rest the matter of whether or not Lizzie Wyllie is the one buried in Kate's grave at Mount Hope Cemetery. In the very near future I am going to add this article to a blog post on my website.

I thought it would be fitting for my first flower delivery to go out to Kate Morgan. If you look at the card message I left for Kate you will see why I believe it is indeed Kate Morgan who is buried here.

On stone: "KATE MORGAN ALSO KNOWN AS LOTTIE A. BERNARD DIED NOV. 29, 1892 AT AGE 24 YEARS"

08/12/2016

Marisol Raquel Lopez

08/12/2016

Today I delivered these orange and yellow ge**er for Marisol Raquel Lopez (June 9, 1986 - October 17, 2015). You can't miss the colorful display atop Marisol's plot. Marisol's family has an existing flower display which includes large flower pinwheels. You can see additional photos of her gravesite in the folder for Greenwood Memorial Park. Marisol is missed but certainly not forgotten!

08/11/2016

08/11/2016

At Kate Morgan's grave.