Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the others were pulling out, in fact, the owner fished a fresh chaw of Red Man from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths...
...almost a century the traditional resting place for Denver Catholics was Mount Olivet Cemetery. But as maintenance costs soared and Catholics began to bury their dead elsewhere, the archdiocese came to fear that Mount Olivet would no longer be able to make ends meet. To help bolster revenues, the archdiocese decided last spring to convert a chapel on cemetery grounds into a mortuary and offer burial services at lower prices than private establishments. The new tab for an average Mount Olivet funeral comes to $1,100 compared with $2,500 elsewhere. That includes coffin, the use of two limousines, death...