Families find headstones buried in dirt at Stockton Rural Cemetery

STOCKTON, Calif. – A Stockton family is frustrated after discovering their loved ones’ headstones buried under inches of dirt and debris again. “I came out here Tuesday, you could not see any of these graves. They were just completely covered over, all the way to the ground,” said Kathryn Vermillion standing in the row where her older brother, father and mother are buried. “My (younger) brother had to dig my mom’s (headstone) out. We took our feet and tried to shove it off, we couldn’t get it off.”

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