Stopped at this cemetery to visit my relatives yesterday. WHAT A DISGRACE. And thats not a pun, even though it is owned by GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH in downtown Milwaukee. This once lush, large and sprawling cemetery, now located in the "hood" has just been left go entirely. The records are kept at THEIR other cemetery, Graceland, up on 43rd and Mill Road, which is not close or convenient. IT DOES APPEAR that SOME WORK HAS BEEN INITIATED, but at a point in time where IT IS TOO FAR OVERDUE. The perimeter fence has been taken down, NUMEROUS DEAD TREES are beginning to be cut down and trimmed. BUT THIS WEALTHY, congregation(s) and WELS Wisconsin Evengelical Lutheran Synod, have taken these poor souls money, and basically ran by shrugging their responsibilities. The work that has been done, looks as though it might have only come by city orders. A very half hearted attempt to maintain this property and maintain their responsibilities to the people interred there and their Families. By the way for informational purposes only, our family was a former member of this congregation. read more