For decades, their work has brought Crown Hill Cemetery's 'people museum' to life

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For decades, their work has brought Crown Hill Cemetery's 'people museum' to life
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For most, Crown Hill Cemetery represents unimaginable grief. But for Tom and Marty Davis, there's thousands more stories to be told.

Crown Hill's Marty Davis explains and rings the bell at Crown Hill Cemetery. It is most often used for funeral processions of line-of-duty funerals.Among the graves of President Benjamin Harrison, several vice presidents and scores of well-known Hoosiers, a monarch butterfly named Warren is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Marty, 65, retired in early August after 40 years at Crown Hill Cemetery and Funeral Home, many of which were spent with the cemetery’s Heritage Foundation. “When she needed and wanted to develop a new skill and utilize that skill to further promote and enhance the cemetery experience, she did it,” Randjelovic, vice president of advancement at the foundation, told IndyStar. “Whatever she set her mind to, she accomplished.”

Tom and Marty work on social media, and the Crown Hill newsletter. Tom will write and Marty pulls double duty, editing and sometimes writing. Tom’s creative streak will sometimes get in the way of Marty’s straightforward preferences — she’s not harsh, he said, but she can be particular.Marty has also captured her love for Crown Hill through “many, many, many thousands of photographs.” Her passion is cataloged through intimate images of deer, perfectly illuminated headstones, brilliant sunsets.

Before Earnest got to know Tom, she’d see him reading obituaries at his desk. While her immediate reaction was one of skepticism, once she learned about Tom’s work at Crown Hill, she was moved. “It always kind of bugged me that you know, here she is, nicest statue in the cemetery,” Tom told the group, “and we don't know her name.”

She’ll tell you herself that she has always had “a passion for bereaved people.” Marty’s father died by suicide when she was 12. She knows what it’s like to grieve — and to heal. Among Marty’s many passions, monarchs are top of mind. She’s been raising them for years — from eggs to fully-fledged butterflies.

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