N.S. families shocked after decorations removed from graves of loved ones
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Several N.S. families are heartbroken after finding bushes cut down, flowers dug up, and sentimental items removed from their loved ones’ final resting places.
Several family members of people buried in a Nova Scotia graveyard are heartbroken after finding bushes cut down, flowers dug up, and sentimental items removed from their loved ones’ final resting places.
They said they had no idea about the cleanup at the Gaspereau Cemetery until after it happened.
Maggie Kalkman, whose grandparents are buried at the cemetery, lost her daughter to a miscarriage in 2017. The infant was buried with Kalkman’s grandmother, and a small stone marker was placed on the site in 2018.
Kalkman was shocked when her boyfriend found a post on Facebook in late April, showing pictures of various grave decorations that were removed from the plots, including her daughter’s grave marker.
“I couldn’t believe they moved it,” she said. “All I could see was it laying up against the shed and I just – it was hard.”
She managed to rescue the stone before it got thrown away, but she’s still angry that it was moved. Kalkman said it reminded her of the painful day her daughter died.
“When I found this out, it triggered that day that I lost her … for two weeks now, it’s all I can think about,” she said. “I try not to, but her stone’s now in my apartment so I walk past it every day when it’s supposed to be up here. This was the only spot I had to come and be with her.”
She said her uncle reached out to the people who maintain the graveyard and was told they could put the grave marker back, but she’s hanging on to it for now.
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