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Tempe is looking to breathe new life into its only cemetery.
The Tempe City Council will consider allocating $1.4 million for more graves and a six-story mausoleum to improve the historic Double Butte Cemetery.
March 2, 2005
Tempe trivia and tales of the city’s most notable residents will be featured on Sunday during the inaugural narrated walking tour of the Tempe Double Butte Cemetery. Tickets are $15 each and can be bought online at www.tempe.gov/events/tales.
FAMILY: Brad Olsen and his grandkids, from left, CJ, Aubrie, and Hannah, stand outside of Tempe Double Butte Cemetery near Interstate 10 and Broadway Road where Olsen bought a burial space.
They’ve taken down the “no vacancy” sign at Tempe’s Double Butte Cemetery. Tempe residents who have lamented for the past 14 years that they couldn’t buy a place to be buried in their own community now have a chance — while the burial plots last.
Did you know Tempe was originally known as Hayden’s Ferry? Or who the city’s first telephone operator was? Get answers to these questions and learn other tidbits of history on Sunday, March 4 during a narrated walking tour of Tempe Double Butte Cemetery. A guide will share historic stories during a ¾-mile walking tour at 2 p.m. Sunday, at 2505 W. Broadway Road.
A 16-year-old girl whose body was discovered murdered in a north Phoenix desert area nearly 20 years ago and later buried as a Jane Doe in the Twin Buttes Cemetery in Tempe has been identified and a Phoenix police homicide investigation seeking leads to find her killer is under way.
A 16-year-old girl whose body was discovered murdered in a north Phoenix desert area nearly 20 years ago and later buried as a Jane Doe in the Twin Buttes Cemetery in Tempe has been identified and a Phoenix police homicide investigation seeking leads to find her killer is under way.
PHOENIX – For 25 years, Joella Moore wondered what became of her brother after he ran away from his family’s home in Riverside, Calif., at age 16. She came to fear the worst but hoped he had started his life over somewhere.
Talk about your spec home. Hardscrabble rancher Niels Petersen must have stunned all who knew him when he suddenly turned out his pockets in the spring of 1892 to build an elegant Queen Anne Victorian bungalow.
February 7, 2005
Sons of Confederate Veterans past commander Ron Fox,left, and Lt. Commander of Camp 1708 Carter Powers are shown Wednesdsay, Oct. 31, 2012 inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe where many confederate soldiers are buried. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Sons of Confederate Veterans past commander Ron Fox,left, and Lt. Commander of Camp 1708 Carter Powers are shown Wednesdsay, Oct. 31, 2012 inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe where many confederate soldiers are buried. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Sons of Confederate Veterans have located and properly marked the resting place of Andrew Jackson Halbert inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe, shown, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Sons of Confederate Veterans have located and properly marked the resting place of Andrew Jackson Halbert inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe, shown, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Sons of Confederate Veterans have located and properly marked the resting place of Andrew Jackson Halbert inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe, shown, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Sons of Confederate Veterans have located and properly marked the resting place of Andrew Jackson Halbert inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe, shown, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Sons of Confederate Veterans have located and properly marked the resting place of Andrew Jackson Halbert inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe, shown, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
Dr. Laura Fulginiti, a forensic anthropologist for the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office, and Dr. John Piakis, a forensic dentist for the medical examiner’s office, discuss the case of an unidentified slaying victim who was named and exhumed from Twin Buttes Cemetery in Tempe on Tuesday.
Dr. Laura Fulginiti, a forensic anthropologist for the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office, and Dr. John Piakis, a forensic dentist for the medical examiner’s office, discuss the case of an unidentified slaying victim who was named and exhumed from Twin Buttes Cemetery in Tempe on Tuesday.
Sons of Confederate Veterans Lt. Commander of Camp 1708 Carter Powers, from left, Barney "Barn Dog" Mullins and past commander Ron Fox are shown Wednesdsay, Oct. 31, 2012 inside the Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe where many confederate soldiers are buried. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]
A 16-year-old girl whose body was found nearly 20 years ago and was buried as a Jane Doe until last month will receive a proper burial.
ASU CARILLON TRIBUTE: Arizona State University’s Symphonic Carillon is a memorial to those in the ASU community who gave their lives in service to their country. Their names will be read at noon Wednesday in front of the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.
Check out a listing of some of the Memorial day events that are going on.
By Mark Scarp, contributing columnist
By Jerry Brown, contributing columnist
Guest Commentary by Bill Richardson
Guest Commentary by Shawn Thiele
By Mark Heller, Tribune
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