Patrick Coniff is a Navy Veteran that started to clean and restore the IOOF Gold Hill Cemetery.
He has now taken over the eight acres and has started to rebuild the area.
This is s taken it upon himself and with the help from volunteers and donations to fix up gold hill's i-o-o-f cemetery.
Patrick coniff-- first started volunteer work by cleaning up and making sure the cemetery was running okay.
He then began working on getting headstones for veterans that only had a metal tag-- which has evolved to everyone at the cemetery without a headstone.
Coniff started doing research to get information about people that were buried in the cemetery without any information-- with the earliest marked grave dating back to 18-59.
Our project now is we're working on, on your plate, putting, replacing all the metal stones or the metal tags with actual burial stones for these people, i build the basis for them.
And then i set the stones on top.
So it makes them look a little bit bigger.
Southern oregon granite has been working with the cemetery on replacing the metal tags with headstones.
Gold hill i-o-o-f cemetery is all ran on donations and volunteervolunteer-- visit our t k-d-r-v dot com.
Continuing our veteran's day coverage-- t-p trucking unveiled its new trailer honoring all veterans.
The design came from rogue community college's graphic design program.
10 students competed in spring to create the new design for veterans.
When i found out i won, i was ecstatic.
Um, you know, it was, it was.
It was, it was just really neat to actually see, you know, things that i, that i i'm so used to looking at a computer and just kind of making stuff, you know, but to actually see it manifest on a huge physical platform, like this is, is amazing.
The design was judged by drivers, staff and management throughout a series of months.
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The Gold Hill IOOF Cemetery was readied for Veterans Day by its Navy veteran caretaker and the help of a donor who sent along the..