Landscaping to honor the dead
As a volunteer, Tom Pelley regulary tends to Lakeview Cemetary, cleaning its gravesites and clearing overgrowth.
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Tom Pelley walks through Lakeview Cemetery and discusses gravestones and burial sites in Sprague, Washington on May 25, 2018. Pelley was arrested earlier that morning and charged with a misdemeanor while attempting to mow the lawn in the overgrown Lakeview Cemetery.
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Tom Pelley points out a grave marked Underwood to Joy Glover in Lakeview Cemetery which is located in Sprague, Washington on May 25, 2018. Glover and her husband Jack visited Macabee Cemetery per their yearly tradition to pay respects to deceased relatives the Friday before Memorial Day, but it wasn’t until this trip that she knew of more potential relatives that had been buried in Sprague.
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A gravestone at the Lakeview Cemetery in Sprague, Washington is seen on May 25, 2018. Gravestones that have been discovered on the plot carry death dates as early as 1882.
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Tom Pelley is pictured on May 25, 2018 outside of Lakeview Cemetery in Sprague, Washington. He is a volunteer who has done landscaping for Lakeview Cemetery since 2015, though he was charged earlier that morning with misdemeanor trespassing while attempting to mow the lawn.
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