Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration

The Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration was held at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis Sunday, September 18, 2022.

By Jeff Wheeler , Star Tribune
September 18, 2022 - 8:59 PM

Lisa Isaacson hugged her mom, Marlene, after she launched lanterns in honor of her father, Philip, Marlene's husband and her grandparents at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery.

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Lisa Isaacson was handed a lantern by her mom, Marlene, to launch in honor of her father, Philip, Marlene's husband and her grandparents at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery.

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One of the hundreds of lanterns made at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis Sunday, September 18, 2022. On the last of three nights for this moving event where anyone can decorate a paper lantern to remember a loved one and then launch it into the water of Jo Pond on the cemetery grounds at dusk.

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A few of the hundreds of lanterns launched during the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

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Lanterns floated on Jo Pond as names were read of those remembered at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

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Rosemary Heiman painted a lantern at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis Sunday, September 18, 2022.

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Rosemary Heiman painted a lantern at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis Sunday, September 18, 20022. She lost her partner two years ago, and has made lanterns since then because she loves the ritual. "We just keep doing them."

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Just one of the hundreds of lanterns made at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis Sunday, September 18, 2022.

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Hundreds of lanterns were placed in the water during the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery.

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A lantern was placed in the water to honor a loved one at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery.

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A pair of lanterns launched together at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis Sunday, September 18, 2022

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Cash Harstad, 2, helped launch a lantern with his mom, Nattie, to honor her mother, Sumrit, at the Eighth Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration at Lakewood Cemetery.

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