Giving the dead a voice: The 50-year fight to save a historic Mexican cemetery in ruins

Sotelo-Heard Cemetery / Wikicommons

 

By John D’Anna | Arizona Republic

Beneath an overgrown, rock-strewn lot in south Phoenix lie more than 300 souls.

No headstones mark their final resting places; they were vandalized and stolen long ago. The few that remained were removed and stored elsewhere for safekeeping.

Tim Diaz grew up across the street from the cemetery. He and his brothers used to chase vandals away.

He surveys the ruins, and his voice goes quiet. He can recite names from the missing headstones from memory.

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