Memorial Day thru the years

When I was growing up I went to the Topeka Cemetery with my mother to lay flowers on my relative's graves and after I got older we laid plastic flowers which did not already looked wilted. I learned that her father was the second person to be buried there. The first had a little island but my grandfather just had a normal tomstone. Later he was joined by his wife, two sons, the wives of his sons and the wife of each son and I think a child but my memory is not that good. It is the cemetery that my mother taught me to drive and the graves of my husband's parents although somehow I am thinking they are buried in Valley Falls with his sister. Sometimes my dad took us to Scranton (south of Topeka) where his parents were buried. It was on one such occasions that we found that she was buried beside the wrong Burkhardt and he had her removed to the correct one. The drug stores especially use to be filled with the plastic flowers. I cannot put flowers on my husband's grave as he was cremated and ashes scattered in a garden beside our church that he loved so well.