Accounts Payable Clerk / Cemetery
Denise Brown
Accounts Payable Clerk / Cemetery
Greeting visitors in person at the front desk in City Hall and on the phone, Denise Brown is the first point of contact for city business. She answers questions and takes payments as receptionist. Always helpful, her duties also include reserving city amenities such as the splash pad, Community Building and parks. She also assists people with cemetery plots.
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Take payments and provide receipts.
Make reservations for Adair Park, Community Building, Splash Pad, Carson Park. She also notifies Park workers of reservations to be sure everything is ready for guests.
Sells Dog Tags, and takes payments for Building and Contractor Permits for Code Enforcement and Community Development. She collects all necessary paperwork from contractors, files liens, and release of liens for code enforcement.
Own a business? She does occupational permits, mails renewal letters to all city businesses, takes payments, and issues licenses.
She enters invoices for vendors, cuts the checks, and mails them out.
Denise also keeps the office running smoothly by shopping for office supplies.
Cemetery Clerk
On the wall in the City Hall reception area is a large map with numbered boxes. But it is so much more, it is the location of decades of loved ones eternal resting places.
Anyone looking to confirm where a loved one is buried or seeking to purchase a plot can come into City Hall and Denise Brown can provide her expertise and reading the map and what is entailed in a purchase.
“They just have to come into City Hall, pick out where they want grave spaces to be, fill out paper work and pay for them,” Brown said.
Sounds easy, and it is generally, once a person decides where they or family member want to be laid to rest. No appointment is needed as it only takes a few minutes, said Brown.
“I will show them the map, and give them a form go fill out and a receipt. Then I will type up a deed and owners card, giving them all the information on the plots,” she said.
If they want to be buried close to where other family members are it’s best to buy those plots as soon as possible.
One question Brown often answers is how may cremains can be buried in one plot.
“Only one cremains can be placed on a traditional grave space, where a person is already buried, or two cremains in a single grave space where no one is buried yet,” said Brown.
Another is what can be put on the grave space?
"Nothing can be placed on the ground of a grave space because of mowing. Flat stones can be placed but have to be flush with the ground so they can be mowed over,” Brown said.
Some are concerned about what happens to the extra spaces after the person dies who purchased the plots.
“Purchased grave spaces go to the person, and their heirs, listed on the purchase agreement. If no one is listed, to the children or grandchildren,” she said.
A single grave space is $150 and a plot of five spaces is $600.
“There are still a lot of plots available in the newer section and we have purchased more land to enlarge the cemetery. Those plots are not open yet, but will be soon,” said Brown.
Something important to know is when ordering a stone it should be delivered to the cemetery, not to City Hall.
“If you order a stone and it is sent to the city we will call and let you know it has been delivered. The city cannot set them, they are private property and the responsibility of the person who ordered them,” Brown said.
The person will have to make arrangements to pick up the stone at City Hall if it is sent here.
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Address: 20 S. 1st St., Stilwell, OK 74960
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918-696-7143
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