Near the southeast corner of Oakland Cemetery, under the shade of majestic native oak trees and surrounded by headstones dating to the 1800s, an unassuming, roughly 150-foot-long plot of land will soon provide a historic opportunity that hasn’t been offered for more than a century.
On Wednesday afternoon, Susanne and Dave Kupiec felt a sense of comfort knowing they would eventually join the famed deceased Atlantans after purchasing one of the first new public final resting places there since 1880.
The married couple, who live in Virginia-Highland, sat on a large bench on a cracked asphalt pathway that will soon be paved, surrounded by bricks and situated underneath a columbarium memorial for those who have been cremated. Their urns will be part of the city forever…