Five years ago, a family buried a relative in a Colorado Springs cemetery with a headstone featuring actual photos of their departed loved one. Now, it has been brought to the family’s attention that some of the photos have been deemed offensive, and some have even taken the liberty of censoring the memorial without permission.
Colorado Family Fights to Keep Loved One’s Headstone
The Geschke family buried their brother in Colorado Springs’s Evergreen Cemetery close to five years ago, something no one ever wants to have to do. The plot is the final resting place of two brothers, Timothy Alan and Ryan James Geschke, who passed away in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
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The headstone reads, “Beloved Sons and Brothers Gone Too Soon” and has numerous photographs permanently affixed to it.
Much to their surprise, one day, when family members visited the gravesite, they noticed that black tape had been put on one of the photos, a picture showing one of the brothers holding up middle fingers.
It’s unclear as to who put the tape on the photo, but now that the cemetery has been made aware of the complaint from an unidentified source, the gravestone has been put in jeopardy…