Gardens of Stone --- A Cemetery Blog by Alexandra Kathryn Mosca

May Singhi Breen was known as the “The Ukulele Lady.” For three decades --the 1920s to the 1950s -- she wrote ukulele arrangements for piano sheet music. And in 1931, she was responsible for the ukulele being included in the New York Musicians’ list of musical instruments. Singhi-Breen was inducted in the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum (yes, there is one) in 2000. She was married to composer Peter DeRose a pianist and composer, with whom she often collaborated.  

Designer Vera Wang's family rests in style in Westchester County's Kensico Cemetery.   The  Wang family memorial overlooks the Cohasset Plot, a seven acre hillside expanse which contains an abundance of decorative laser-etched monuments bearing Asian surnames. At dusk the ivory granite structure takes on a greyish hue.