News 3 looks into gravestone disappearance in Chesapeake; reappears next day

Lynette Smith regularly visits her sons’ graves at Roosevelt Memorial Park off Campostella Road in Chesapeake.

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Jay Greene speaks with Lynette Smith

Viron Bryant died in 1996, and Ervon Smith passed away in 2005. However, she recently noticed the flat headstone that’s supposed to mark Ervon’s burial site was missing.

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Viron Bryant
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Ervon Smith

“The ground is covered,” Smith said. “There’s no headstone, everything is gone and it’s covered.”

Smith told News 3’s Jay Greene she reached out to the general manager of the memorial park, but she wasn’t satisfied with the response.

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“They told me they’ll write up a complaint,” she said. “Then the manager told me she couldn’t talk to me, she was busy.”

Smith called News 3, and she showed Greene where the stone was supposed to be. It was still missing on Wednesday.

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