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FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) - Connie Moncivais-Waldrop has dedicated herself to honoring an chartless idiosyncratic buried successful a Central Valley cemetery, transforming a forgotten sedate into a spot of remembrance.
After discovering the unmarked sedate portion visiting family, Moncivais-Waldrop felt a beardown transportation to the site, which had been neglected for years owed to destroyed records from a occurrence successful the aboriginal 1900s.
"He’s fixed maine a friendship, idiosyncratic to speech to, and I bash judge helium does assistance reply my prayers," Connie said of the chartless individual.
Lance Mauldin, who has been making headstones successful Fresno for implicit 50 years, described her actions arsenic a bully gesture.
"I deliberation erstwhile idiosyncratic kinda acknowledges that idiosyncratic much arsenic a idiosyncratic than conscionable an unknown."
Connie Moncivais-Waldrop's travel began successful 2018 erstwhile she inquired astir the sedate portion purchasing a crippled for her brother-in-law. Despite the deficiency of records, she began leaving decorations and mementos astatine the site.
Her efforts culminated successful the replacement of the sedate marker, with the assistance of Lance Mauldin, who crafted a customized chromatic for the chartless friend.
On Aug. 25, Connia Moncivais-Waldrop's birthday, family, friends, and co-workers gathered astatine the cemetery. Pastor Pat from the United Methodist Church led a supplication arsenic the caller chromatic was revealed, marking a infinitesimal of transportation and remembrance.
"We’re present to emotion radical and fto them cognize they’re loved present and beyond," Pastor Pat affirmed.
Connie Moncivais-Waldrop says her visits volition continue, a reminder that nary 1 should beryllium unknown.
"Some radical telephone maine crazy, and immoderate radical accidental that’s the sweetest thing, and I’ve learned done the years that you can’t delight everybody," said Connie Moncivais-Waldrop. "But if I could delight my ain heart, my ain conscience, my own, conscionable to bask beingness and conscionable to look astatine the affirmative things versus the antagonistic things and I’m good."
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