St. Margaret of Hungary Parish 1919-2009

Well, one does not expect a parish (stone says church, there is a difference, you can see the parish had moved from the old neighbourhood by Buckeye Road to the suburbs). A parish is a corporate person. 

Cleveland had a tyrant of a bishop, Richard Lennon, who will be chiefly remembered for closing 58 parishes in Cleveland, after he closed many in Boston before he came to Ohio. He especially liked closing ethnic (national) parishes, as many American bishops have done. Lennon also disposed of their assets. He controlled as many purse strings as he could gather. Some were of parishes, some of organisations, and some of lives.

This stone is in All Saints Cemetery Northfield, near the Nativity of Mary mausoleum. I wonder if he knew this was done. Can't really ask him now, he is completely gaga, i hear.