Courtesy of Dayton Daily News

Restoration of St. Henry’s Memorial Chapel will be completed in time for cemetery’s 150th anniversary in 2022

A memorial to the unclaimed dead is being restored in time for a local cemetery’s 150th anniversary next year.

St. Henry’s Memorial Chapel sits on a picturesque point — the highest within Calvary Cemetery’s more than 200 acres on the Dayton and Kettering border.

“The cemetery is certainly a precious jewel and the chapel is the crown centerpiece of it all,” said Rick Meade, Calvary’s executive director.

The memorial chapel is shrouded in scaffolding for the $800,000 project. The only unobstructed view is at the front where an inscription carved above the door reads, “Dedicated to the unclaimed dead of St. Henry’s Cemetery, 1902.”

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