Grandview Memorial Park which is located across beautiful Lake Hodgson in Ravenna, Ohio is where I was reared from about the age of nine.

I became an officer of the company when I turned eighteen while in the United States Marine Corp in 1975 and served on the Board of Directors through January of 2008 when my father decided to retire. After my discharge from the Marines in 1976 I worked in the Administration, Sales, and Maintanence departments through April of 1994 when I left to pursue a career in technology, specifically data communications, 

In the course of my Internet career, my youngest brother Billy (now deceased) and I purchased the domains GrandviewMemorialPark.com .net and .org to developed a web site for the cemetery.. At the time, we thought it'll be cool to develop the first cemetery web site on the Internet to offer information, online pre-arrangement transactions and also the ability to make donations to the 501  C3 quasi-public institution.

I was in the midst of redeveloping the domains when my father decided to retire, and since the new management never introduced themselves to me, or expressed any interest in continuing my web site labor, I decided to use the domains to share my childhood memories. Billy and I knew that there are hundreds, if not thousands of Grandview Cemeteries across the Country which was why we purchased all three top level domains ie: .com, .net, and the .org. If fact according to Google when you search for the string "Grandview Memorial Park " 80,700 other pages contain those words. Thinking that someday someone would be interested in purchasing one of them. Yes, I've also dabbled in domain speculation and even sold a few in my career for a profit. On one occassion around 1999, I negotiated the sale of  massagetherpy.com for a several thousand dollars   So, if you are interested in one of my domains, pleasse feel free to contact me. I plan to use any revenue toward my little brothers dream of establishing the Global Peace Network Project using the domain GlobalPeace.Net in which the Global Peace Project shall solicite funding to finance Internet projects for 501 C-3 or other worthy socially conscience projects to disseminate their valuable information.

My site or domains are not associated with  http://grandviewmemorialpark.info/ in Glendale California.

If you are trying to contact Grandview Memorial Park in Ravenna, Ohio there is a citysearch listing at URL
http://cleveland.citysearch.com/

and also on the Yellow Pages online at URL:
http://www.yellowpages.com/

and their traditional contact information includes:

Grandview Memorial Park, Inc.
5400 Lakewood Road
Ravenna, Ohio 44266
Telephone 1.330.297.1332 

The rest of this page is dedicated to my little brother Billy

The memorial we placed on Billies grave can't help but touch ones heart and make you think about life. His memorial reads:

..Billy R
"Catman"
a 20th Century Poet

Member of Masonic Poets Society
Graduate of Hargrave Military Academy
Founder of "GlobalPeace.Net" Internet Domain

WILLIAM

SHERIDAN

RINEHART

"Time is such a precious thing,
It's more than wealth untold,
It's something that we can't store,
And nobody can hold,
Life goes by so speedily,
Before we scarce can taste it,
And time can never be regained,
So, why do people waste it?"

1960 - Masonic emblem #1012 -2003

If you care about my childhood stories, read on. 

My Childhood:Memories

Jesse James McGhee was a couple years older than me and lived across the street where his Father Ed McGhess managed Lake Hodgson during the 60's and 70's. It is fitting that I start sharing stories about my friend Jesse.because he was the first murder statistic of the 90's in Portage County and his memorial is installed in the Christus Garden of Grandview Memorial Park. Jesse was the closest thing I had to a big brother! He died trying to break up an arguement over who had the quarter in line for the next pool game, according to my understanding. I guess Jesse stood up for someone, then followed the bully out the door where he received his first stab wound. Only Jesse would follow the bully after that and it cost him his life. Those of us that knew Jesse miss him and his friendship.

To be continued.... 

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