Nearly every year on the anniversary of Marlin Cumming’s death, his family would visit Sunland Memorial Park mausoleum to mourn their loss, sharing stories about his life, talking about how much they missed him—feeling more connected to his spirit.
It was a tradition they kept for more than 20 years.
“I always thought that’s where he was, that’s where daddy is,” says Marlin’s daughter Caroline Piepenbrink, a Gilbert teacher.
That all changed in 2002, when Piepenbrink’s mother Frances died and she went back to the mortuary to fulfill Frances’ final wishes—for her ashes to be placed in a companion niche in the mausoleum next to Marlin’s, her husband of 33 years.
But when the niche was opened, they discovered it was empty and that Lundberg Mortuary could not find Marlin’s remains.
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The e-Pod Evolution
Stoked by the green movement, proponents of prefab architecture are racing to develop the Prius of manufactured homes. But will Americans give up their
Hummer-sized abodes for a smaller-is-better lifestyle?
By Jimmy Magahern
There are times when Matthew Salenger wonders what possessed him and his wife to gut out the three bedrooms in their home and turn the whole place into an open loft-style studio, moving their own bed outside, into a long shed-like structure in the middle of their backyard.
“Every time I mow the lawn, I think, ‘This would be so much easier if we didn’t have these stupid pods out here,’” says the soft-spoken 37-year-old with a laugh, motioning toward the pair of narrow, 30-foot-long steel structures. “Then I think, ‘Oh, yeah.’”
Actually, Matthew and Maria Salenger had several good reasons for constructing “the pods” back in 2001, when the newly engaged pair of artists was looking for a way to run an art and architectural design studio out of their small 50-year-old Tempe home. Read Full
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