headstone

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Not included: “A headstone or any other permanent memorial,” the site adds.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

Community members paid for the sturdy stone headstone.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

Next to its headstone in the graveyard of institutions, one might also place a marker for the era that publisher Henry Luce once labeled “the American Century.”

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2025

After his dilapidated grave was discovered in Ramsgate, a campaign to restore his resting place has culminated in a small headstone with the Wimbledon logo on it being erected to celebrate his success.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

It seemed like the easiest, most natural thing in the world, to sit on somebody’s headstone under the cool shade if a tree and chat.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride