Cemetery grounds keepers
Cemetery grounds keepers Willie Roberts and Sammy Treto put care into providing a beautiful final resting place for people’s loved ones as members of the grounds and interment crews at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena.
Each man also has a personal connection to this peaceful place: Willie’s mother, uncle and two brothers are interred at the Mountain View Mausoleum, and a good friend of Sammy’s lies at rest there as well.
Willie and Sammy will forever be connected to the grounds they have tended, as each has already purchased a resting place in the cemetery or mausoleum for themselves.
See more photos by Katie Falkenberg and read full story by Thomas Curwen “Between the sacred and the mundane.”
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June 21, 2011, 6:46 pm
Thank you, Gentlemen, for sharing your story with us. You and the beautiful work that you do are appreciated.
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