After a busy spring and Memorial Day Weekend, activity at Pleasant View usually subsides as we head into summer and fall. We still work on monument cleaning and repair, but the ground becomes so hard that lifting, leveling, or searching for buried markers is just not possible.  We do a minimum amount of cleaning, mowing and trimming, but otherwise just enjoy the summer season.  After the fall rains, we take up more projects in earnest, but if you want to help we can always come up with something, any time of year!

Looking to Volunteer?  We rely mostly on volunteer help from family and community members, scout troops, and the Clackamas County Community Service Crew.  If you or your family would like to join us sometime, there is always work to be done.  From big projects like uncovering and leveling sunken monuments, to lighter work like trimming, sweeping and raking, to cleaning out engravings where your largest tools might be chopsticks and a toothbrush!

Contributed Lately?  We depend on donations to help cover our maintenance expenses.  Many of our family members make an annual contribution of $50 – $150 to help with expenses. All contributions are tax-deductible and can be made anytime to:

Pleasant View Cemetery Association at P.O. Box 141, Sherwood, OR  97140.

 Monument Cleaning:

We have cleaned and treated all our marble monuments (about 165 of them) with a product called D2 that kills lichen, an annoying little plant that can turn white marble nearly black and hasten deterioration of the stone.  It is used by stone conservators at places like Arlington Cemetery and the Washington Monument, so it comes with good credentials.  It takes several months to fully lighten the marble back to its original color, so you might notice our marble in a variety of stages of lightening.  Never use bleach or other cleaning products on historic marble because it can permanently damage the stone and hasten its deterioration.  In 2015 and 2016 we have been working on our granite markers, especially those under the big fir trees that tend to grow moss and lichen.