MEMORIAL PARK IDEA.- The Forest Lawn Cemetery has been developed along such lines as to make it “a place where art and Nature's beauty join in tribute to the memory of those who are gone and give pleasure and inspiration to the living.” (1) The Little Church of the Flowers,” whose architect was inspired by the village church of Stoke Pages. (2) Its companion church, the “Wee Kirk, o' the Heather,“ a reproduction of Scotland to own Wee Kirk, where Annie Laurie Worshipped. (3) The imposing Tower of Legends, situate on an eminence in the park. Before it, every Easter morn, thousands of worshippers gather from far and near for devotions at sunrise. (4) Part of the cemetery proper. No headstones are allowed, but artistic statuary may be erected as family memorials. (5) “By Life's Sea,” one of the originals by American sculptors in the Forest Lawn collection.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 111, 11 April 1936, Page 6

MEMORIAL PARK IDEA.- The Forest Lawn Cemetery has been developed along such lines as to make it “a place where art and Nature's beauty join in tribute to the memory of those who are gone and give pleasure and inspiration to the living.” (1) The Little Church of the Flowers,” whose architect was inspired by the village church of Stoke Pages. (2) Its companion church, the “Wee Kirk, o' the Heather,“ a reproduction of Scotland to own Wee Kirk, where Annie Laurie Worshipped. (3) The imposing Tower of Legends, situate on an eminence in the park. Before it, every Easter morn, thousands of worshippers gather from far and near for devotions at sunrise. (4) Part of the cemetery proper. No headstones are allowed, but artistic statuary may be erected as family memorials. (5) “By Life's Sea,” one of the originals by American sculptors in the Forest Lawn collection.