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September 11, 2007
VIII-C-2
TO:
The Honorable Mayor and Council
FROM:
John Grossman
RE:
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery
REQUEST: A Hastings resident and Minnesota National Guard member has
requested permission to bury ashes and place a military headstone in the cemetery if
she does not return from active duty in Iraq. See the attached memo from Maj.
Patricia Baker to David Osberg, City Administrator.
BACKGROUND: The City has been maintaining this cemetery at the comer of
Featherstone and Nininger Road (1st Street and CH 42) for more than 20 years. Staff
has not been able to determine if the City ever took an action accepting responsibility
for the cemetery. It was established in 1905 by the local Peller Post of the GAR
(Civil War veterans). The last member of the post died in 1933. Three Civil War
veterans and six of their family members were buried in the cemetery between 1905
and 1973.
Dan Fluegel, City Attorney, advises that the Council would have to take steps to
establish City ownership and management of the cemetery prior to granting this
request. Mr. Fluegel believes ownership can be established but it would take up to 90
days. Major Baker is willing to wait for this process to be completed.
In order to permit additional burials, the City would get into the business of operating
a cemetery. State law permits Cities to accept ownership of a cemetery located in the
jurisdiction. If ownership is established and accepted, the Council could form a
committee for management and adopt rules for the maintenance and operation of the
cemetery.
The specific conditions of Major Baker's request seem appropriate for a small
cemetery established for veterans and maintained by the City. The number of
potential requests is likely to be small, but these conditions might be applied to them
as well.
a. Permission for the time related to active service
b. Hastings resident
c. Member of a military service
d. Burial of ashes
e. Military headstone
ACTION: If Council is willing to consider operating the cemetery in order to make
future use possible, staff would take steps to establish ownership and report on
operations
DEPARTMENTS OF THE ARMY AND THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS, MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD
OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL
20 WEST 12TH STREET
SAINT PAUL, MN 55155-2004
MN-PAO
29 August 2007
MEMORANDUM FOR Mr. David Osberg, City Administrator, City of Hastings
SUBJECT: Formal Request from Major Patricia G. Baker for Entry into the Soldiers and
Sai lors Cemetery
1. I fOffilally ask the city of Hastings to grant me permission to place a military headstone in
the Soldiers and Sailors Cemetery of 1905, if and only if, I become a combat fatality while
serving in suppOli of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
2. This request would be for ashes and a headstone only. This request would be for the
duration of October 2007 through December 31,2009. I am a Hastings resident and
homeowner in good standing with the city. My interests lie in the sentimental desire to be
placed next to a fellow Minnesota Militiaman who fought and died with the 15t Minnesota
in the Civil War and who resides in perpetuity in the Soldiers and Sailors Cemetery.
3. All aspects of this request pertain only to my individual request for consideration in light of
upcoming active duty deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 10-08. There
would be no cost to the city due to the military death benefits and gratuities which cover
the costs of funeral and interment honors.
4. If you have any questions with this request, please contact me at DSN 825-8961 or at
commercial (651) 268-8961 or patricia.g.baker@us.army.mil.
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PATRICIA G. BAKER
MAJ, A V, MNARNG
Combat Aviation Brigade S4
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