Next to a line of flags set out for Memorial Day, Rod Roberts, guarded by his dog Sophie, clears grass around the grave of a friend at Fairmount Memorial Park on Tuesday. Each year in preparation for Memorial Day, Roberts goes to the graves of family members and a few friends, edging the grass around headstones. “I don’t do it for anyone but myself.” He said he hopes someone in the next generation of his family will take over the yearly task, learning the location of the graves he tidies each spring. “Maybe my daughter,” he said, adding that she is a busy adult who doesn’t have much extra time. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
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Next to a line of flags set out for Memorial Day, Rod Roberts, guarded by his dog Sophie, clears grass around the grave of a friend at Fairmount Memorial Park on Tuesday. Each year in preparation for Memorial Day, Roberts goes to the graves of family members and a few friends, edging the grass around headstones. “I don’t do it for anyone but myself.” He said he hopes someone in the next generation of his family will take over the yearly task, learning the location of the graves he tidies each spring. “Maybe my daughter,” he said, adding that she is a busy adult who doesn’t have much extra time.
