Officials make graveyard discovery: No one is sure why more than 500 people from Montgomery County are buried in plots that were supposed to go to Berks County veterans.

From: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) | Date: March 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Mary E. Young

Mar. 1--Records at a Montgomery County cemetery show that more than 500 Montgomery residents are buried in plots donated to Berks County veterans, Berks Commissioner Thomas W. Gajewski Sr. said Tuesday.

Gajewski said that he, assistant county Solicitor Christine M. Sadler and Controller Sandy Graffius made the discovery last week when they visited the Limerick Garden of Memories Inc. to determine what happened to 830 plots donated to the Berks veterans affairs office more than 20 years ago.

Cemetery officials had claimed that only 270 plots were ...

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