New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
“Saturday I bought what they call a whiskey barrel of geraniums at Stop and Shop, (the pot looked like a barrel and it was quite large and filled with geraniums and some other plants) and I put them in front of my husband’s mausoleum.
Yesterday I watered them and today they were gone. I had already replaced his stolen flag. I talked to two other people at the cemetery that had experienced the same.
It’s a sad state of affairs of how our country has gone to point when it’s people stoop to robbing graves, taking flags that they did not earn and taking plants that they did not pay for and dishonoring someone else’s loved one, a deceased veteran on Memorial Day Weekend.
My daughter is buried in Riverside Cemetery and in the past people have even dug up flowers that I had planted there and I have had wreaths stolen from family gravestones in Rural Cemetery.
Are there that many cemetery thieves or is there one who is making the rounds of all the cemeteries? If you see something, please call the police, so they can catch this despicable grave robber.
UPDATE: I went to the cemetery office at Pine Grove Cemetery. The workers are not removing anything from the graves, so it was definitely a grave robber! They have had other reports, also, and suggest that it should be reported to the police.”-Carol Cesolini.
I’ve lived my life with my pepe visiting my meme’s grave daily. My mom was there for him. When my father died my mom In the beginning did go visit his nitch when she was at my home. I would bring her. After a couple of years past she felt you didn’t need to go to the gravesite. Just remember them. Well my mom passed. I have visited the nitch but not overwhelmingly. I think of her everyday and post on her tribute page as if she was still here. I have a place in my yard where I planted flowers so she’s always with me. If you were good to those you loss when they were living, remembering them daily is the best tribute you can give them in return for their time lived. It’s a true celebration of life and no one will ever take that from me. Sending you good thoughts, hopefully comforting words.