Our family’s experience providing funeral directors and monument builders with ongoing, consistent lettering and cemetery monument services started three generations ago with our grandfather, Earl Fischer. After he built a name for himself throughout Iowa and the Midwest, our father, Dan Nelson, took on the family business and trained a new crew, armed with the skills and attention to fine detail that had been instilled in him by his father-in-law.

As our family’s heritage and knowledge within the cemetery industry continue from generation to generation, the newest chapter in that tradition is Legacy Lettering, owned by Dan’s son-in-law, Mike Poggensee. Though the name has changed, the approach remains the same: We treat each and every job, no matter how big or small, as if we were doing it for our own family member.

We believe that a cemetery monument is a permanent memorial to a loved one who has passed away, and every person who passes leaves a legacy. Our goal every single day is to ensure their monument — a small representation of that legacy — is a true memorial to their life, constructed and lettered to a level of absolute quality and dignity.

In honor of the legacy that those who have passed away leave behind, our daily mission is simple: preserving legacies, one letter at a time.