Mark Velasquez has visited his daughter at Sacramento’s Odd Fellows cemetery regularly since her death a little over a year ago. Sammy’s plot is up near the cemetery’s fence line, under a tree that offers some welcome shade during the Sacramento summer.
He’ll trek up to the plot, sometimes with his dog trotting at his side, and sit in the grass near her. He’ll think about his daughter – her creativity, her kindness.
“It’s a beautiful place to sit in the shade and talk to her,” Velasquez said. Sammy was “always positive and hopeful. She loved helping people.”…