Benches are part of our everyday lives. We walk past them in cities and parks. We sit on them as we wait for a bus, watch children at play, take rest. Sometimes, they are affixed with a small plaque ...

OAKLAND — A granite bench on Hiller Drive now bears the name of fallen Oakland Fire Battalion Chief James M. Riley Jr., who died on duty in the 1991 Oakland hills firestorm. The bench was dedicated at ...

SPRINGFIELD — “My mom would have been so honored by this, but she also would have been so embarrassed by the commotion,” Tom Ashe said of his mother Mary Ashe, as Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and Parks ...

Nearly every day in the last years of his life, Casimir Paugys drove to Thatcher Woods Forest Preserve in River Forest, sat in his car, read the paper and enjoyed the placid pond and nature center ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A life-sized preview of the Emanuel Nine Memorial’s fellowship benches are installed at Mother Emanuel. The bench, which is constructed of Vermont Danby Pearl marble, sits on ...

The memorial at the 4th Brigade Combat Team headquarters received an addition last Tuesday of an Operation Iraqi Freedom V-VII memorial bench. "The bench helps finish off the Currahee memorial that ...

Memorial gardens offer a beautiful and meaningful way to honor family members, friends and even pets who have passed away. Unlike traditional monuments, these gardens use living plants to create ...

A bench has been placed in honor of Hershall Creachbaum, but it’s not at the location where his remains were found.

Leetsdale officials plan to install benches at borough parks this spring in memory of two kind souls. A bench in memory of volunteer election worker Brian Tarasi will be placed at Kohlmeyer Park, and ...