Love your family? Spend eternity with them

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KELOWNA – You will soon be able to spend eternity with your family at the Kelowna Memorial Cemetery.

Cemetery manager David Gatzke is seeking Kelowna council approval to add some new fees and two new family-oriented products to the cemetery’s product line-up.

The family niche has the capacity for four sets of created remains in a compartment twice the size of the regular niche and will be distinguished by having a shutter — that’s the door of the compartment — twice the length of the regular niche.

Also new is the family vessel niche that allows you and nine of your cremated family or friends to co-mingle in an urn-shaped vase.

Along with that comes the option for bronze family vessel niche plaques, allowing the co-mingled occupants to be separately indentified.

Gatzke’s report to council does not give the projected fees for the new services. Council will consider the request at it’s regular council meeting, Monday, May 9.

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