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@gingerw

@thisismarilynb I don't know if this has crossed your mind, about interring your husband's ashes. Here is what I did.

My dad was also cremated in 2012, at his wish. I ordered enough small remembrance containers from Perfect Memorials for each child, and used a small amount of his ashes in the container. Beyond that, at his request, there were token amounts of his ashes spread in three places significant to him. Half his ashes were interred with my mother's gravesite. The last half was committed to the sea off the California coast [he was a Pearl Harbor Navy man on the USS Enterprise]. We could not honor his request for all children to gather at the USS Arizona memorial in Hawaii and commit the remaining half. Every so often I pull out the anchor container and wear it, and remember him.
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My husband's wish was to be buried in the Riverside National Cemetery. We had visited it several times. So that's what is going to happen. We were extensive travellers and there were too many places that we liked to scatter any ashes. The plans are now made and the date set. In due course I will join him there. He was in the Air Force and there will be an honor guard.