Not all the saints were in the "All Saints" post

In looking back at the "All Saints" post, I realized I didn't upload one of my favorites from the day.

This memorial statue is referred to as the "Haserot Angel" and it stands atop the grave of Francis Haserot and his family. The Haserots family is famous for institutional-sized canned good. Their company, Northen Haserot, supplies hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and other institutions with canned meats, seafood, dairy, beverages, and produce, as well as certain types of food-service equipment and cleaning chemicals. I've seen their trucks a lot during my many road trips.

Northern Haserot was founded in Cleveland in 1892 and has been located here ever since. They only ship to the Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Toledo, and Columbus areas, but they manage to operate two distribution facitilites and a USDA federally inspected meat plant.

The statue at their cemetery plot was sculpted in 1924 by Herman Matzen.

The statue has been referred to as "The Angel of Death Victorious." The male angel has his hands folded on what looks like a sword, but is actually an upside down torch, symbolizing a life extinguished. It is a beautiful, but creepy piece, and the weather has streaked his bronze skin and caused his face to look like it is stained with tears of discolored metal.

"For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?"

- Kahlil Gibran