CEMETERY NAME

REDEEMER  CEMETERY
 

 

 

 

 

 

Redeemer Cemetery. . .574 A/B

29° 39.163    -95° 19.974

This is a very difficult cemetery to find.  Go west on Airport Blvd from Mykawa.  Turn right (north) on Martin Luther King Blvd. Turn right on Sunbeam Street and then left on Vasser Road.  Don't bother looking for Wenda.  About 50 yards down on the right you'll see a sign post that indicates an intersection but that's it.  See below for the rest of the directions.

As you will quickly see, this cemetery needs a lot more than TLC - it needs a good lawyer.
   

Here's the sign post. . ..


But where's the road!?!  Well, actually, that's it. 
It appears that Wenda was a dream that never materialized.
You want to be very careful here.  See that motor home behind the street sign?  There is a pit bull chained up there. 
That's good.  What's bad is that the chain reaches to the right side of that gate and, yes, he bites. 
A black man who drives a large white pickup truck apparently owns the land to the left and controls access to
Wenda as well.  He was "kind" enough to hold the dog and let me visit the cemetery.
   
About 200 yards beyond that metal gate in the above picture and down that path, you'll come to a second metal gate (left).  Off to the right, you'll see the cemetery (the entrance with the sign is down another 50 feet).  If you look closely on the right side of the picture and just to the left of the foreground tree, you'll see the resident caretaker.  Spot him?
   

Here's a better shot of him.


From that point, I found the first stone.  Dead center in this
photo is one of the two gravestones I could find from my
vantage points OUTSIDE the fence.
   

Moving on down the fence line, you'll see the gate with the hand painted sign hanging to the left.

 


The second stone is back there in the center of this photo which was taken from the gate.
The two stones have to be 40 feet apart.  I can only wonder how many souls were
buried in there and what became of their markers?
   

Time for the return trip.  Here's what it looks like facing back toward Vasser. 
I found a big stick that I carried with me in case the pit bull's owner wasn't around.
Thank God he was!
   
   
 

 

 

 
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