LEESBURG, Fla. — A group of Lake County volunteers are asking county and state leaders for help with a struggling cemetery in Leesburg.
Residents say they’ve been stepping up to help clean the Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery after discovering it’s been neglected.
Volunteers in Leesburg say they started to notice trash and vegetation building up around headstones at the cemetery last year. They decided to clean the cemetery themselves after they were unable to get in contact with the property owners or management company tasked with maintaining the property…