{"id":19642,"date":"2021-06-30T16:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:07:05","slug":"families-search-for-answers-at-seemingly-abandoned-tulsa-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/06\/30\/families-search-for-answers-at-seemingly-abandoned-tulsa-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Families Search For Answers At Seemingly Abandoned Tulsa Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktul.com\/news\/local\/families-search-for-answers-at-cemetery\">www.ktul.com<\/a><br \/>\nBy James King<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nGrieving Tulsans are searching for answers at a Crown Hill Cemetery after headstones disappear, grounds are unkempt, and the owner is nowhere to be found.\n<\/div>\n<div>\nDozens of headstones, which should be out in the cemetery marking someone&#8217;s loved one who&#8217;s passed away, sit next to a dumpster.\n<\/div>\n<div>\nRose Morgan, whose mother\u2019s headstone is one of them, has been coming since August 2020. She says she visits often, hoping to find the owner.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cPretty much every other day in a school bus, while I&#8217;m at work in my company car. I work at Tulsa Public Schools,\u201d said Morgan. \u201cAnd I just decided last Wednesday to put a note on this door, maybe I&#8217;m missing someone. So I put my number on the door saying, \u2018Contact me.'&#8221;<br \/>\nNewsChannel 8 reached out to the person the Tulsa County Assessor&#8217;s Office has listed as the current owner of the cemetery, but just like Morgan, we have yet to receive a response.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSince she posted the note on the office door, calls have started rolling in from people like her searching for the same answers.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cI come up here at least once a week,\u201d said Ladonna J. Calamease-Bell, who contacted Morgan after seeing her note. \u201cI&#8217;ve been living here for 37 years now, and I&#8217;m up here all the time because a lot of my family is here, and it\u2019s just sad.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<div>\nAll they want are answers and the ability to have a special place for their loved ones.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ktul.com By James King &nbsp; Grieving Tulsans are searching for answers at a Crown Hill Cemetery after headstones disappear, grounds are unkempt, and the owner is nowhere to be found. Dozens of headstones, which should be out in the cemetery marking someone&#8217;s loved one who&#8217;s passed away, sit next to a dumpster. Rose Morgan, whose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,103,109,106],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","category-obituary","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}