For weeks after her mother’s death, Tracie Boyd visited Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in Pompano Beach, taking time to process her grief, bring flowers and spruce up the graves where both parents now rest.
But she began to wander to other parts of the cemetery, curious to see if she saw graves of others she may have known that also need sprucing. That’s when she happened upon the grave of Broward County educators Joseph and Blanche Ely.
“It was in such a bad state, I just assumed that it couldn’t have been them,” she said…