LBM Monuments opens office at Muscatine’s Greenwood Cemetery – Voice Of Muscatine

(City of Muscatine)

Leyda, Burrus & Metz (LBM) Monuments has contracted with the City of Muscatine to operate a Sales and Service Office at Greenwood Cemetery. A ribbon cutting was held Wednesday to welcome the business to Muscatine.

LBM has provided families with beautiful, one of a kind memorial stones since 1892. Based in Burlington, Iowa, the company opened a second sales office in Macomb, Illinois, in 2019, with the Muscatine office their third sales office.

Two Burlington companies, the Leyda Company and Burrus & Metz, merged into one company in the 1930s. Leon Leyda died in 1932 with the surviving partners, Richard Burrus and Walter Metz, selling the company to Bob Meyers in the 1960s. Meyers subsequently sold the company to Ron and Duane Sourwine in 1976, who then sold the company to Jeff and Amy Laue in 2014.

Amy Laue will direct operations of all three sales offices from Burlington with Robin Mizaur-Martin handling the day-to-day operations in Muscatine. The local sales office will provide families with the opportunity to purchase family memorials in granite or bronze, floral vases, shepherd’s staff, remembrance candles, flowers, bronze plaques, floral hanging baskets, etc. The memorials can be placed in Muscatine but LBM also has the ability to ship memorials to any location in the United States.

LBM also specializes in repair work and restoration of older memorials.

For more information, visit www.lbmmonuments.com or call Robin Mizaur-Martin at 563-263-7051 or call the Muscatine sales office at 563-272-0190. Also on staff at the Muscatine office is Lorena Bolivar and Brett Talkington.

In 2004, the City of Muscatine started the Greenwood Cemetery Office Operations and Retail Sales programs. The Office Operations Agreement is responsible for the day-to-day operations of daily business at the cemetery, which include grave sales, burial arrangements and general citizen inquiries. The Retail Sales Agreement located on the chapel side of the Greenwood Cemetery administrative building conducts retail sales business for general ancillary burial space needs requested by citizens.