Per this August 18, 2023 Channel 19 WOIO Cleveland news report, Resthaven Memory Gardens in Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, owned and operated by Everstory Partners formerly called StoneMor, continues with its long time flooding problems seriously affecting gravesites. The situation makes it difficult for those visiting family and friends at this sprawling mostly flat terrain cemetery who need to stand in the water wearing boots and looking at rows of grave markers submerged under water.
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Quoting from the story.:
"The cemetery has drawn concerns, complaints, and legal action over the years, with 19 News first reporting on the story back in 2018."
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In April, 2023, per a news release, StoneMor changed their name to "Everstory Partners."
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On a personal note, I corresponded with Nancy King just a few years ago. Nancy's parents were buried at Resthaven Memory Gardens. Sadly, Nancy felt she had no other recourse left for her since her complaints were not resolved, so she made the difficult and personally expensive decision to have her parents exhumed from their gravesites at Resthaven Memory Gardens in 2019. Then her parents were cremated and flown to near where she lived in California and re-interred at a cemetery near her.
On September 12, 2019, Channel 3 TV Station WKYC aired Nancy's story that fortunately is still available to view.
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Nancy King passed away on January 28, 2022.
Thus, it is quite sad for me to keep hearing about unresolved problems at Resthaven Memory Gardens in Avon with seemingly no clear path forward to achieve resolution regardless if the owner's name is StoneMor or Everstory Partners - it is the same sad story! The company needs to do more than only change their name, they need to change how they handle their business and step up to honor their repeated promises to resolve long standing problems like flooding at Resthaven Memory Gardens in Avon, Ohio.
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I visited Resthaven Memory Gardens in 2019 to pay my respects at the gravesite of a childhood friend, Linda L. Kennelley Kurianowicz. Thankfully it had not been raining in the past few days so the ground was dry.
