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| The mystery of mom's second headstone |
| 2006-05-19 |
| A gruesome bit of litter that sparked originally sparked outrage has now turned into a macabre mystery. Sarabeth Eason and her neighbors in Flint, Michigan have grown accustomed to the litter they find near the abandoned homes in their neighborhood. But nothing could've prepared them for the site two weeks ago of the headstone of a woman buried over 75 years ago. "It's a complete disrespect of someone's resting spot," said Eason, 31. "I don't know where it came from." The marble slab is etched with two flowers and reads "Mother Nora Little 1894-1929," but local cemeteries have no records of such a woman. When Carl Schopieray read the story this past Mother's Day -- the day after celebrating his 60th wedding anniversary, it hit too close to home. "That's my mother," he said. Making the tale stranger still is that Schopieray's mother was buried 70 miles away in Standish. Why would someone steal her headstone and then dump it so far away? With a heavy heart, Schopieray went to Standish to assess the damage to his mother's grave. What he found shocked him. His mother's grave was intact, headstone and all. Which begs the question, whose headstone is being held at the Flint Police Department? |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all? RB Koan #11. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-05-19 18:39 |
| #3 How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all? |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-05-19 17:30 |
| #2 Bad work from the chiseler. Wasn't ground over and recycled per usual. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-05-19 16:33 |
| #1 Maybe Cindy Sheehan can pick it up cheap... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-19 14:51 |