For at least 15 years, Cecelia Moore of Price has been buying and collecting decorations for the graves of her parents, grandmother and aunt.
Two days after Memorial Day, the cherished collection was gone, apparently stolen. It happened long before the routine removal deadline so the cemetery staff didn’t remove the items.
So far, only the decorations on the graves of Moore’s parents, Zella and Jim Pizzuto, grandmother Loreen Addley and aunt Nita Addley have been reported stolen.
A partial list of the adornments taken includes homemade flowers, metal flowers, nylon fabric butterflies and pinwheels. “I respect the dead and I enjoy decorating,” she explained.
She also regularly scrubs the stone markers and keeps the sites clean.
Moore doesn’t think it was kids who took the items. “They don’t have any use for it,” she said. However, older people might.
“I’m sure it makes somebody’s back yard look real pretty,” she said.
Father’s Day is coming up soon and now she’s not sure about putting any more decorations out. Maybe, if whoever took her collection would return it to the cemetery maintenance shed, she’d have something to put on Jim Pizzuto’s resting place.
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