Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Walter Butler Palmer (1906)
• Date of Burial: Tuesday, June 26, 1951
Family Members Interred in
Bohemian National Cemetery of Baltimore:
✩Frances Anna Chlada Lukas (1872 - 1950)
✩Frank Joseph Smeton (1894 - 1973)
✩Frances Anna Lukas Smeton (1896 - 1969)
✩Charles Panuska (1904 - 1974)
✩Helen Catherine Lukas Panuska (1905 - 2002)
✩Joseph A. Conrad (1903 - 1961)
✩Catharine Joanna Lukas Conrad (1909 - 1886)
✩Helen M. Smeton Nedrow (1927 - 2007)
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Walter Butler Palmer (1906)
• Date of Burial: Tuesday, June 26, 1951
Family Members Interred in
Bohemian National Cemetery of Baltimore:
✩Frances Anna Chlada Lukas (1872 - 1950)
✩Frank Joseph Smeton (1894 - 1973)
✩Frances Anna Lukas Smeton (1896 - 1969)
✩Charles Panuska (1904 - 1974)
✩Helen Catherine Lukas Panuska (1905 - 2002)
✩Joseph A. Conrad (1903 - 1961)
✩Catharine Joanna Lukas Conrad (1909 - 1886)
✩Helen M. Smeton Nedrow (1927 - 2007)
Inscription
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LUKAS
AMBROSE A.
1867 — 1951
FATHER
FRANCES A.
1872 — 1950
MOTHER
Family Members
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Mary Antonia "Marie" Lukas Doyle
1894–1969
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Frances Anna Lukas Smeton
1896–1969
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Ambrose Francis Lukas
1899–1934
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Sebastian John Lucas
1902–1946
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Amelia Rosalie Lukas Burness
1904–1988
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Helen C. Lukas Panuska
1905–2002
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Catharine Joanna "Kate" Lukas Conrad
1909–1986
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Joseph George Lukas
1911–1993
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John Charles "Johnny" Lukas
1914–2006