Permanent markers don't necessarily leave behind permanent stains. Here's how to remove permanent marker from denim, leather, wood, walls and more.

Types of stone: Most grave markers are made of sandstone, slate, marble, limestone or granite. Stuart says that the type of stone will determine what technique should be used to clean it.

This is how cemetery conservator Alicia Williams, better known on TikTok as Lady Taphos, cleans gravestones from start to finish.

Private headstones and markers are the responsibility of living family, while government-issued headstones - which Jim and Sue can recognize easily - are what they work to maintain and clean.

Volunteer Kaelyn Whitt sprays a grave marker with biodegradable cleaning fluid to loosens lichen without damaging stone in Kansas City’s historic Union Cemetery. Whitt was attending a recent ...

Honoring veterans by cleaning their headstones or identifying where they are buried began 30 years ago for Grimaldi when she lived in Maine. That’s when she volunteered to restore the markers.