In a message dated 5/29/2003 12:15:07 AM Central Standard Time, JaniceCall@aol.com writes: > There is something to be said about the old fashioned cemetery... where > they > do not take the old flowers away. In Ark, I recently went to an old cem. > that > my mother had visited before she died a few years ago... there on her great > > great grandmother's grave was the little wooden cross with plastic flowers > on > it that she had left there many years ago. I was moved; brought it home and > > will paint it and take it back in a few months. > > Janice > Janice, I agree with you. Somehow don't think people used to STEAL the flowers, either. My parents are buried in OK, and I live in MO. Take flowers everytime I go. Couple of times they are there; more often one or both bouquets gone. That is something that the flowers your Mother left were still there after several years. Barbara