ROOTS & BRANCHES

Last week’s “Roots & Branches” gave some of the details about my long personal history about the Bern Cemetery Company’s Historic Graveyard and the wooden marker that had been there all my life. As a result of some publicity about the installation of a replacement wooden marker, Marvin P. Stamm Jr. emailed Patrick Donmoyer (Kutztown …

Steady readers of the “Roots & Branches” column know I have a special affinity for the burial grounds of Bern Reformed United Church of Christ, now owned by the Bern Cemetery Company, of which I am a trustee. I was raised in this Berks County church—almost literally, since my mother was often there “until the …