More Mwemorial Day memories

After I was married we use to take my in-laws around to the cemeteries. They were originally from Valley Falls so we visited a small cemetery there near Dunavant, Kansas where my husbands older sister was buried and many of their older relatives. We went year and it was a mess. The fence was falling down and the flowers from the year before were laying dead on the graves. The road into was awful. His sister's grave had a peony bush on it and looked good. Ray was covering the legislature at that time and he got some of his Senators and Representatives to pass a bill making counties take care of cemeteries in their own counties. The next year we went back and the cemetery was mowed, a new fence was up a new flagpole and it was very neat. The road was now gravel and not dirt. One of his relatives graves had been by the fence and was not there anymore. It was really quite a pretty one now. Then we would check out the Valley Falls cemetery and go on our way to Topeka. I remember one year we put flowers on a relative's grave only to have an aunt turn up and say we had put them on the wrong graves and throw our flowers into the road. We gathered them up and put them on a grave I hope it was maybe a correct one. The best thing was I got to visit my sister and I loved that. We had lunch and then drove back to Kansas City. My husband was cremated and his ashes are in a place at our church. You can't put flowers on it so have flowers on the alter sometime in the year in his memory.