Grave decorations disturbed at Coeur d'Alene cemetery
Post Falls resident Linda Whitehead said she’s reluctant to decorate her parents’ graves after repeated disturbances. Last month, she found chicken bones and meat stuffed inside flower vases. KAYE THORNBRUGH/Press
In Forest Cemetery, the graves of Robert and Gertrude Van Wagoner sit unadorned after decorations were repeatedly disturbed. KAYE THORNBRUGH/Press
COEUR d’ALENE — When Linda Whitehead visited her parents’ grave in Coeur d'Alene's Forest Cemetery one Sunday in July, she found the red, white and blue silk flowers she’d previously put in vases scattered on the grass, along with the miniature American flags she’d placed.
She poured out the sprinkler water that had accumulated in the vases — and was shocked when chicken bones and pieces of meat fell out, too...
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