This is my favorite tombstone in the entire cemetery — Frosty, a white cat, posing in a blue dress. If you’ve ever had a cat, you know that they are usually not inclined to tolerate nonsense like this from their owners. Frosty, owned by the Foster family, must have been one special cat. The simple tagline “a pal” at the bottom of the tombstone is understated yet sincere.
Inscription:
Frosty
1934-1945
A pal
FOSTER (across the top edge)
Location:
Aspen Hill Memorial Park
N 39° 04.751 W 077° 04.585
J. Edna Hoover. Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.
One of the delights of visiting a pet cemetery is reading all the interesting, heart-warming, and funny names people give their pets. Last week, I showed you the tombstone of J. Edgar Hoover’s dog, Spee De Bozo. Now meet J. Edna Hoover, an English bulldog buried in Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York. I wonder if the owners really admired the FBI director, or if this was their way of mocking him?
Inscription:
J. Edna "Hoover"
The Greatest Little Girl
To Walk
This Earth
On Two Or Four Legs.
Keep Watching Over Me
Location:
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York
Cat #1 and Cat #2, Keval Family. Aspin Hill Memorial Park.
Here’s what I’d like to know. If they loved these cats so much that they’d bury them in Aspin Hill Memorial Park, underneath a solid granite tombstone, why couldn’t they have come up with more imaginative names than Cat #1 and Cat #2?
