Katamatite Cemetery Trust
A group of 8 local people meet once or twice a year to discuss the welfare of the Cemetery, take notes and pay the accounts.Katamatite is what is known as a "small cemetery".
The records of deaths, are kept in a large book, which has deaths recorded from the late 1800's There is a section that has old sites, a new lawn section, and a cript for ashes.
The cemetery is maintained by the local Lion's club. They mow the lawns and trim around the gravestones to keep it neat and tidy.
There are many visitors to the cemetery, looking for relatives eg grandparents who have been buried in the graves a long time ago, some dating back many years, and this helps families who may be looking to make up family trees. Many graves have been updated and lettering cleaned to make the plaques and headsones more legible.
The Moria Shire conducts meetings where representatives of each town
is welcome to attend. The Shire has no input to the general running of the cemetery, but will help with infrastructue where machinery in requirded - for trimming trees, carting soil for new lawn cemeteries etc.
Some of the Cemeteries that are in the Moira shire, are Cobram, Nathalia, Tungamah, Yarrawonga, Burramine, Bundalong, Numurkah , Katamatite to name a few. Katamatite averages 5 funerals each year, and our local grave digger is Mr Ray Mills. He prepares the grave for each burial, and makes it neat and tidy for the undertaker.
Many of the graves are occupied by two people, usually husband and wife. After each funeral wreaths of flowers are placed on the grave, which makes the grave sight very beautiful. The secretary, Elaine Barnes
has the big book with all the names in it, and people can ask Elaine if a she knows if a certain person is buried in the cemetery. All of the names are now on a CD disk This is particulary useful if there is no gravestone. Not all grave sites have head stones. In the years past many people were too poor to afford the expense of a head stone, so they were never placed on the grave.
There is a man in Tallygaroopna, {near Shepparton} who prepares the plaques, which are really called "desks", for the lawn section. All of these "desks' are of the same height and width, so that the lawn section is uniform, or the same.
One of the members of the Cemetery trust is Mrs Ada Rudd, she is the Katamatite Hitorian and is very interested in the stories of the people who have been buried in the Cemetery,
In the Historical Society there are many books written by Mrs Rudd about people and places in Katamatite.
The Historical Society in contunction has had working bees in the Cemetery, restoring the iron rails surrounding the older graves to help elimate rust. The old cemeteries all look much better.
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