LSU Supports Katrina Memorial at Charity Hospital Cemetery

New Orleans - The LSU Board of Supervisors and LSU HCSD support plans for the construction of the New Orleans Katrina Memorial on the grounds of the Charity Hospital Cemetery at the end of Canal Street at City Park Avenue, in Mid-City New Orleans.

The memorial will be a place to honor all the victims of Hurricane Katrina and a mausoleum for the unidentified and unclaimed victims of the storm.

The proposed design incorporates shapes of a hurricane and labyrinth. Mausoleums and trees will line the outer labyrinthine walkways; donor recognition plaques the inner. A statue of two bronze angels bearing a flaming fleur de lis will be in the center.

The NOKMC began a nationwide campaign at the end of April to raise $500,000 in grants and gifts for the first phase of the $1.2 million project.

Donate by snail mail or at neworleanskatrinamemorial.org.

For more information, call 504.658.9660.