MARION, Iowa — City officials and community members gathered Thursday at Oak Shade Cemetery to celebrate the completion of a restoration project for the cemetery’s historic crypt wall.
The City of Marion hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the cemetery, located at 789 Second Ave., marking the completion of repairs to the deteriorating structure.
Oak Shade Cemetery was established in the early 1840s, before Iowa achieved statehood, and the crypt wall is considered one of the cemetery’s unique historic features…