Article: Caring for the dead: PC board cleans up area cemeteries.

Byline: S. Brady Calhoun

Feb. 3--PANAMA CITY -- The plots in Greenwood Cemetery used to cost as little as $5, and those patches of ground were sometimes the only land the dead ever owned.

The land deal often came with a deed or a bill of sale that defined the land as solely belonging to the dead and their descendants, according to Veryl McEntire, the director of Panama City's leisure services.

Legally, McEntire and his staff are not allowed on the graves, even to clean them, just as they are not allowed on private property. The legal quandary has left some of Panama City's oldest cemeteries overgrown and ugly.

"Look here at what a ...

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