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Lynchburg, TN - County Line - Moore County

James Burns Gowen

Cedar Tree Cemetery Association, Inc. 

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President 

Don Lee Gowen

1310 Cantwell Ave. SW

Decatur, Alabama 35601

Home:  256-350-7067

Office:  256-350-7824

Fax:  256-350-3955

Cell:  256-309-1279

Email:  DonGowen@gowencemetery.com

Email:  dlgowen@aol.com

Web site:  www.gowencemetery.com  

Vice-President 

Bill Swan

1101 Cane Creek Road

Dunlap, TN  37327

Home:  423-949-6183

Office:  423-899-9000

Cell:  423-667-1060

Email:  sportcolbs@aol.com

Email:  bswan@adamslitho.com

Website:  www.gowencemetery.com

Secretary-Treasurer

Sylvia (Gowen) Gilbert

1803 Angel Lane

Signal Mountain, TN. 37377

Home:  423-886-7507

Cell:  423-413-9951

Email:  SylviaGilbert@gowencemetery.com

Email:  SylviaGilbert@comcast.net

Web site:  www.gowencemetery.com

Board of Directors 

STANDING COMMITTEES 

Note:  The Association President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer shall automatically serve as members of all Standing Committees.

HISTORICAL – MEMBERSHIP – PUBLIC REATIONS COMMITTEE 

Chairperson:  Terry Kennemer 

Members of Committee:  Donna Kennemer, Jerry Hice,  Beverly Marks 

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities of Committee

*Location, positioning, and marking of individual grave sites within the cemetery;

*Maintenance of a scaled drawing of the cemetery showing the location of known

  individual graves, and a listing of all known and verified individuals interned in

  the cemetery;

*Responsible for the solicitation and promotion of membership in the Association,

  maintaining membership listings, and annual renewal of memberships;

*Responsible for planning, solicitation, and the promotion of funding for the

  Association from all potential sources;

*Responsible for solicitation, receiving, and compiling of genealogical information

  from all known sources on James Burns Gowen and descendants, and the

  development and maintenance of a data base for all information thus obtained or

  received.  All information obtained, received, collected shall be compiled and

  published as an on-going project of the Association in systematic form to the

  Association Web site:  www.gowencemetery.com;

*Responsible for all media and public relations activities of the Association. 

RESTORATION AND PERPETUAL CARE COMMITTEE 

Chairperson: Bill Swan 

Members of Committee:  Rick & Sylvia Gilbert, Terry Kennemer, Terry Horn, Bud Mullins, Ralph Kennemer, Donna Kennemer, Beverly Marks and Don Gowen 

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities of Committee 

*Responsibility for the restoration of the cemetery;

*Compiling and maintaining lists of volunteers for cemetery work projects;

*Obtain required materials, supplies, and equipment necessary to accomplish

  desired tasks in the cemetery;

*Providing for care, conditioning, repairs, replacement, and preservation of head

  stones and markers of individual graves in the cemetery;

*Acquisition of and placement of head stones or identifying markers for individuals

  interned in the cemetery for which there were no original stones or markers;

*Preparation and the maintenance of the cemetery grounds on a perpetual basis;

*Enhancement to the cemetery by the installation of quality fencing for appearance

  and security;

*Provide gating and access to the cemetery;

*Provide quality signage for the cemetery;

*Development and implementation of fund raising activities to fund a trustee

  account of expenditures for perpetual care of the cemetery.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Members of Committee:  President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer 

This Committee shall be responsible for the day-to-day operations, activities, and decisions of the Association as established by the documents of organization for the Association and not reserved to the Board of Directors by the By-Laws.