Don Zegel held his son’s ashes for five hard years, struggling to bury them.
Then, in the spring of 2017, he heard about Heartwood Preserve.
“I knew that if Greg were still alive, he would just want to hang out there,” he said.
Gregory Michael Zegel died in 2012 from a prescription-medication overdose. He was 21 and a talented violinist who loved nature. At Heartwood, where his family buried his ashes last summer, he’s part of it.
The 41-acre property off Starkey Boulevard is a conservation cemetery. It offers environmentally friendly burials in a place that’s protected from encroaching development.