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Family members coming to pay respects to their ancestors finding a dozen of their burial plots flooded. They turned to CBS 2 for answers.
CBS 2’s Chris Tye has more from the Silverman and Weiss Cemetery in Forest Park.
It’s happened for years, and still no fix. For those buried along the western edge of the cemetery, resting in peace doesn’t come easy.
“I’m the only one left now. My brothers, sisters and aunts and uncles are all gone. And there’s one grave there waiting for me,” said Dorothy Bernstein.
They’re all buried at the 140-year-old Silverman and Weiss Cemetery. What’s waiting for any visitor to the cemetery now are ducks, floating not on a reflection pond, but on the lake several feet deep that’s formed over every one of Dorothy’s ancestors.
