Page 23 - Amarillo Senior Link Magazine Winter 2021 - Online Magazine

HISTORY OF LUBBOCK

Seewald Robert crafted wooden beams Chaplains is in the R Garden. It and beauty. The pond in the K garden
and artwork for the interior of the honors the four WWII Army chaplains has become a gathering place for
administration building. This artwork who bravely gave their lives on the generations of families to feed the
included an impressive ten-foot-tall SS Dorchester after offering their own ducks and enjoy time together with
painting that still adorns the brick life preservers to others when the ship loved ones here and gone.
fireplace in the main entrance of the was going down.
front office. This painting depicts the The Llano Cemetery currently resides
history of the Llano Estacado. The The Poppy Field is the resting place on approximately 165 acres, and it will
canvas portrays the Plains Indians, for many of our veterans who gave continue to grow to meet the needs of
the oil boom of the area, and scenes their lives for our freedom. The Amarillo’s community. If you would
from the more modern industry of the Military Garden is the location where like more information, contact Llano
1930s. each Memorial Day, veterans are Cemetery at 806-376-4538.
honored with
In section 66, a plot of the cemetery 146 flags flown
looks bare, but it is actually the burial throughout the
grounds for the Amarillo victims of area.
the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. So
many lives were lost in such a short In the numbered
time that the records are incomplete. sections,
This area off of 34th St. is the final intricate, Art
resting place of many whose burial Deco-styled
markers are simply engraved with the personal
word “unknown”. and family
monuments
Throughout the grounds of the mark the legacies
cemetery, beauty and history are of the men and
waiting to be discovered. The crucifix women who
in the M Garden is located directly came before us
in front of the West Llano 34th St. – hand-crafted
entrance, and the statue of The Four stones of life

From the National Registry of Historic Places: “Initially
a treeless 20-acre rural graveyard with rough native
grasses and a formal gridiron plan, the Llano Cemetery
doubled in size by the 1930s and became a naturalistic
‘oasis’ defined by curving roads, rustic and revival
styles of architecture with imported trees, shrubs, and
grasses. What was simply a place to bury the dead,
became a park as well and thus a living monument to
the pioneers of Amarillo.”

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