Hundreds of people have visited her grave for the anniversary, creating deep ruts in the soft mud and gravel driveway that leads back to her plot, which is marked with a bench.
The path was so worn, the cemetery’s trustees called Sheriff Gene Kelly and asked if he could help repair it.
“They were actually asking for gravel because the traffic has been so heavy out there,” Kelly said.
Pike Twp. and the Clark County Engineer’s Office obliged the request, hauling in four dump truck loads of pea gravel swept off the streets. No taxpayer dollars were spent to repair the driveway, Kelly said.
Now, there should be no issue for those heading to the cemetery to pay their respects.
“It just shows the caring, compassion, the feeling of genuine loss that this community has — that so many people have been to the cemetery to make that visit,” Kelly said. “I see that as a positive because people needed to go there and wanted to go there, and it’s part of the healing process.”
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