The Charlotte Jewish News - May 2012 - Page 9
Cemetery Expansion to Include Memorial Building
2012 will be a momentous year
for the Hebrew Cemetery
Assoeiation. What is in store? In
the year ahead, the eemetery will
embark on an impressive expan
sion that nearly doubles the num
ber of existing plots and will ereate
a lovely new building to graee the
site.
The projeet ineludes surveying,
grading a new building, laying out
new grave areas, landseaping and
other grounds improvements for
the remaining six aeres of the 11-
aere property. The land, whieh is
loeated near the heart of Center
City, was purehased by the eeme
tery’s founders in 1867.
A vital part of the expansion is
the eonstruetion of a beautiful
Memorial Building. Bill Goreliek
and Mare Silverman, eo-ehairs of
the Building and Capital
Campaign Committee, say that the
need for the building beeame
apparent when the Hebrew
Cemetery Board listened to
requests from the Jewish eommu-
nity.
The Memorial Building,
designed by the arehiteetural firm,
LS3P, will provide spaee for
smaller funerals, memorials and
unveilings. The new building also
will inelude bathrooms, a base for
the earetakers, maintenanee equip
ment storage and a proteeted area
in ease of inelement weather.
Rendering of the future Hebrew
Cemetery Memorial Building.
A large portion of the funds
required for the expansion have
already been raised. Mare
Silverman notes, “The board eon-
tinues to be so appreeiative of the
eommunity’s generous eommit-
ment to the Hebrew Cemetery.”
Late this spring the eemetery
board will launeh the publie phase
of the eapital eampaign.
“Partieipation in and eare of the
Hebrew Cemetery demonstrate a
deep faith in the future of the
Jewish eommunity. It’s just the
right thing to do,” shares Bill
Goreliek.
Kevin Levine, Hebrew
Cemetery Board President, adds,
“The eompletion of the site and
new offerings make it more invit
ing for more Jewish families to
beeome Hebrew Cemetery
Assoeiation members and is part
of a well thought-out Master Plan
that will earry the eemetery
through the next deeades.”
One thing that may not be eom-
monly understood is that the
Hebrew Cemetery of Greater
Charlotte is a eommunity eeme
tery, not dedieated or governed by
any single synagogue. As a eom
munity eemetery, it is available to
all Jews, affiliated or unaffiliated.
Membership in and support of the
eemetery is separate from support
of one’s own eongregation.
The Hebrew Cemetery
Assoeiation was the first Jewish
organization established in
Charlotte. Today the Hebrew
Cemetery serves the Greater
Charlotte area, ineluding parts of
North and South Carolina, and
remains a vital player in the life of
our Jewish eommunity.
The eemetery provides eare for
families at the moment of their
greatest need and of their greatest
loss. One eannot imagine a Jewish
eommunity that did not have sueh
a eemetery at work, fulfilling its
saered mission.
But one doesn’t have to wait for
a loss to eontaet the eemetery.
Every week the eemetery advises
families on pre-planning their eer-
emonies and helps families under
stand their end-of-life options.
Through the pre-planning proeess,
these important deeisions, made
years in advanee of any need, ean
refleet the individual’s wishes and
ereate peaee of mind.
In a similar vein, the Hebrew
Cemetery is eurrently doing its
part to help our Jewish eommunity
plan for its own longevity. This
year’s eemetery expansion and
building eonstruetion eelebrate the
growth of Charlotte’s vibrant
Jewish eommunity.
These efforts and the eommuni
ty’s generous eontributions will
help ereate a Jewish resting plaee
for future generations. In the
months ahead, the Hebrew
Cemetery Assoeiation board looks
forward to sharing with you the
progress of this expansion.
To learn more about pre-plan
ning or to arrange a personal tour
of the eemetery, please eontaet the
Hebrew Cemetery
of Greater Charlolte
Hebrew Cemetery Direetor,
Sandra Goldman, by phone at 704-
576-1859 or by email at diree-
tor@hebreweemetery.org.
Meetings ean be arranged either
onsite at 1801 Statesville Avenue
or in the offiee at 5007 Providenee
Road, Suite 105. Information
about the history of the eemetery
and updates about the eemetery’s
expansion and eonstruetion are
available online at www.hebrew-
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