I became interested in the findagrave.com website when a total stranger said it would be a good place to locate family members. That was in 2019. This lead me to volunteer as a photographer, thinking that it would be neat to find a headstone/marker and load it for the families to see. What I discovered was that too many people are buried without anyone taking the time to place a marker on the deceased's grave. Yes, weather and vandalism can wear down/destroy a marker, but when a cemetery is run by a corporation and no one takes the time to mark a map to identify which grave has a marker or not, someone needs to speak up for the dead. After all, there is big, big money in funerals. Why not have a map of the cemetery that identifies who has a marker and who doesn't? I no longer volunteer to walk a cemetery. Instead, I contact the person in charge of the property and ask if there is a marker. Sadly, nine times out of ten, no one knows anything about the dead buried in that expensive piece of ground. If there is a governmental entity that needs to address this issue, please let me know. As to my photograph? One of my special education students gave me a first edition of the New Wonder Woman comic book and said to me, "As far as I am concerned, Ms. Clark, YOU are the Real Wonder Woman." God bless that young lady! I feel more like Wonder Woman every time I find a person on FAG who needs to join their family at this website. There is something about bringing family members together, even after death has taken them from their loved ones. The stories they could tell, the stories that are waiting to be written, are waiting on us to do just that.

I became interested in the findagrave.com website when a total stranger said it would be a good place to locate family members. That was in 2019. This lead me to volunteer as a photographer, thinking that it would be neat to find a headstone/marker and load it for the families to see. What I discovered was that too many people are buried without anyone taking the time to place a marker on the deceased's grave. Yes, weather and vandalism can wear down/destroy a marker, but when a cemetery is run by a corporation and no one takes the time to mark a map to identify which grave has a marker or not, someone needs to speak up for the dead. After all, there is big, big money in funerals. Why not have a map of the cemetery that identifies who has a marker and who doesn't? I no longer volunteer to walk a cemetery. Instead, I contact the person in charge of the property and ask if there is a marker. Sadly, nine times out of ten, no one knows anything about the dead buried in that expensive piece of ground. If there is a governmental entity that needs to address this issue, please let me know. As to my photograph? One of my special education students gave me a first edition of the New Wonder Woman comic book and said to me, "As far as I am concerned, Ms. Clark, YOU are the Real Wonder Woman." God bless that young lady! I feel more like Wonder Woman every time I find a person on FAG who needs to join their family at this website. There is something about bringing family members together, even after death has taken them from their loved ones. The stories they could tell, the stories that are waiting to be written, are waiting on us to do just that.