Work on new memorial starts at Tekoa’s cemetery

A large marble memorial for veterans will be constructed in the Goldenrod Cemetery at Tekoa. The groundskeeper for the cemetery, who is helping with the memorial, estimates there are more than 300 area veterans buried in the cemetery.

More than 100 years of Tekoa area soldiers are buried in the town’s Goldenrod Cemetery.

Today, three Tekoa women are months away from the completion of a veteran’s memorial at the 10-acre city cemetery. Constructed of marble and concrete by an architect from Post Falls, the memorial may be open to the public as soon as Memorial Day.

“There are people in town that...