Some of  the graves in the Evangelical section of the Turin cemetery are embellished by statues and bas-reliefs by important Italian sculptors. This is the case of Susanna Sanders’s tomb purchased on January the 7th, 1907 by her husband Giovanni Giacomo. The woman, of Dutch origin, had been living with her family in via Campana 33 in the San Salvario neighbourhood.

The grave decorations by Giuseppe Sartorio from Valsesia cost, a pupil of Odoardo Tabacchi’s in Turin, who had also made many funerary monuments in Sardinia and who mysteriously disappeared on the night of the 20th  September 1922 on the Tocra steamship, during the Olbia-Civitavecchia crossing. At the time  it cost 1,200 Lire. 

The bas-relief represents an angel with resting wings, holding a veil and contemplating the urn on a plinth. In 1951 Susanna's daughter, Johanna Wilhelmina, asked the city of Turin her desire to make the grave  perpetual, rather than having it removed after a few decades as is the custom.