Benkelman Cemetery board asks Dundy County to consider taking over groundskeeping as sexton retires
Benkelman Cemetery trustees told commissioners that with their long-time sexton retiring after 32 years and roughly $14,000 in annual tax income (and $4,104.44 in insurance last year), the board asked the county to assume groundskeeping to ensure upkeep.
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The Benkelman Cemetery Board asked the Dundy County Commissioners on May 18 to consider taking over groundskeeping after hearing that there will be "no cemetery sexton to take over when Bob Willis ceases his maintenance duties at the end of May," following Willis’s 32 years of service. The board said annual tax income for the cemetery is about $14,000 and insurance last year cost $4,104.44, leaving limited funds to pay a sexton despite recent increases in plot purchase rates.
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