Rest assured: Caretakers stay busy maintaining Humboldt cemetery

A small but dedicated group of caretakers takes no shortcuts in upkeep at Humboldt's Mount Hope Cemetery.
Craig Newman weaves among tombstones while mowing at Humboldt’s Mount Hope Cemetery. All told the cemetery, established in the early 1870s, covers 40 acres. Photo by Bob Johnson / Iola Register
by Bob Johnson – The Iola Register
Published: August 19, 2026
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A small but dedicated group of caretakers takes no shortcuts in upkeep at Humboldt’s Mount Hope Cemetery.

HUMBOLDT — Cindy Holinsworth, sexton at Humboldt’s Mount Hope Cemetery since 2022, has a vision for the cemetery.

Some of her thoughts have already morphed into reality, including sprucing up its entrance on Hawaii Road.

Concrete posts line the entryway and hold fences that’ve had better lives on either side. The posts lean every which way. Holinsworth has obtained 300 new concrete posts to replace the old, as soon as she secures a powered post-hole digger.

Bob Johnson – The Iola Register

Bob Johnson has been with the Register since July 1964, including the past few years in a less demanding role. He continues to write his Saturday column at Week’s End, which began in 1972, and occasionally other things. During Bob’s tenure he has written sports, features, general news and editorials. He often has supported his writing with photographs. His institutional knowledge of what occurred in the past is a valuable asset for the Register and its reporters’ mission to tell the story of Iola and Allen County.

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