All Hail, Reg Ramsay!

6/30/2023

I'm not sure when I first met Reg. Given his elephantine memory he may recall details of our first encounter but I don't. I suspect it had something to do with Kaz and my involvement with the purchase of the triangle of land around the Oracle Post Office from his family. Anyway, I'm here to say the guy is amazing. For one thing he's buried more local folks than all preachers combined. (Or so I believe without hard numbers to back me up.) He has been wrangling burials for more decades than most of us have been alive. He recalls family histories like nobody else in town. And he comforts the grieving with singular respect and compassion. Plus he's funnier than hell.

Reg Ramsay, President, Oracle Cemetery Association

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Kaz and I moved to Oracle in 1979. The house we bought dated to the late 1940s. With little advance knowledge of the place, we set out to build a new life together, intending to settle in and raise a family.

Queens, New York and before that Chicago, Illinois rapidly receded in our rearview mirror as small town living moved front and center.

Of course, we had to learn how to do lots of new things - from chainsawing dead trees, fighting fires, building cabinets, patching leaky roofs; not to mention figuring out how to get along in a rural town in Arizona with the center of local government an hour away and a do-it-yourself ethos the order of the day.

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All Hail, Reg Ramsay!

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