The Big Canoe Chapel Cemetery lies in a lovely, serene natural forest with a garden setting featuring flowers, shrubs, and trees planted in harmony with the natural beauty of Big Canoe. The Cemetery is part of the Jimmy R. Allen Meditation Park, which is marked by stacked stone columns at the entrance about 500 yards north of Big Canoe's main gate.
The Chapel Cemetery features meditation benches, a gazebo and a
memorial wall. The natural character of the area is carefully
preserved. Only uniform flat granite markers are permitted and no
artificial flowers are allowed. Native planting is encouraged, but must
be approved and carried out under the supervision of the cemetery
manager.
As of 2007, cost of a plot is $1,000. Two cremated remains may be
interred in the same plot. For information on how to purchase a
cemetery plot, please call the Chapel office. (Note: Plots may be
purchased by Big Canoe property owners and the immediate families of
property owners and by Chapel members.)
Big Canoe Chapel Cemetery, Inc. is registered with the State of
Georgia as a church cemetery. The operation is on a self-financing
basis, with twenty percent of plot sales deposited into a perpetual
care fund.
Chapel Cemetery Memorial Wall
A memorial wall has spaces for 52 cast bronze 4 x 8 inch memorial plaques. The Wall is to memorialize loved ones who are not interred at the Chapel Cemetery, but who once had strong ties to Big Canoe. Each plaque contains space for the names and birth and death dates of those memorialized. (For more information and pricing, please call Kathleen Ingram at the Chapel office.)
Dedication Service at the Big Canoe Chapel Cemetery
Dedication of the New Cemetery Section and
site of the columbarium
Dr. Gray Norsworthy and Reverend Lamar Helms
Sunday, October 5
Leader: We gather in this place to give thanks for the gift of life and the beauty of creation.
All: We thank you, O Lord!
Leader: We remember all of those whose bodies have found a final resting place and give thanks for each of their lives.
All: We thank you, O Lord!
Leader: We celebrate the good news that death is not the final
word for those who die in Christ, and we give thanks for the promise of
new life and resurrection.
All: We thank you, O Lord!
Leader: We give thanks for all those who purchased and prepared
this place so that others might find comfort as they bring their loved
ones to this resting place.
All: We thank you, O Lord!
Leader: We dedicate this new section of the cemetery in the hope
that even in the midst of loss, we might remember that nothing can
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
All: To God be the glory, forever and ever. Amen and Amen.
Big Canoe Chapel Cemetery Committee
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Lamar Helms, Ben Collins, Fred Miller, Chairman, Harry Yarbrough,
Gray Norsworthy, Missy Massey, Fred Olmondson
Not in photo: Eely Jackson, Dave Reid, Amanda Woerheide |
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