cremation niches show personalities, hobbies and passions around the urns. When the San Francisco Columbarium was built in 1897, the grand neoclassical repository for human ashes stood in the Odd ...

That's integral to his job as caretaker and gardener for San Francisco's Columbarium ... survivors is to tell tales of the decorated Columbarium niches, where urns bearing ashes of the departed ...

Hoffman moved from China to San Francisco in 2003 and has been working as a family service counselor at the columbarium for eight years, a job she can’t seem to quit. Hoffman organizes events where ...

The San Francisco Columbarium rededicated a larger memorial niche in honor of slain city supervisor Harvey Milk for its observance of Harvey Milk Day. The niche contains items that were donated years ...

The Columbarium, located near the intersection of Stanyan and Anza streets near the University of San Francisco, provides 8,500 "niches" for inurnment on its current property, but that number will ...