Last Living Carthage Marble Stonecarver Completes Final Monument

Mar 14, 2019 | News, Trends

Last Living Carthage Marble Stonecarver Completes Final Monument

CARTHAGE, Mo. — If there was one final piece of stone Donald Helms was going to carve, it was going to be the headstone he started carving nearly three decades ago.

Helms, 84, is the last living stone carver who worked at Carthage Marble […]

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Source: Joplin (Mo.) Globe

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