The Memorial Garden
During Jane Gurry’s ministry, St. Mark’s developed a Memorial Garden. The congregation’s history describes provision both for the interment of ashes and for the names of parish members buried elsewhere. [1]
A second space, the Covenant Garden, took a different form. Set aside in the early 1990s, it was allowed a more natural pattern of growth and offered a place for quiet meditation. The parish affectionately called its gardeners the Lay Weeders.[1]
The gardens in the surviving record
Both garden names appear in the old website’s photo galleries preserved in December 1997. That date belongs to the archived webpages; it does not establish when the photographs were taken. [6]
A family memorial for Jeanne Ann Glass Seaver, published in 2024, refers to diocesan care for the Memorial Garden after the parish closed. [31]