I'm very pleased for this lady that she finds such solace in the cemetery. Some parts, I agree, are absolutely gorgeous.

My father, however, is buried in Plot 49, as was the husband of the first lady whose letter appeared in the Herald a few weeks ago.

Maybe the lady who wrote in praise of the cemetery would like to visit this plot and see the disgusting state of some of the graves.

We, like many others, paid a lot of extra money to have dad's grave attended to properly, and thus far it hasn't been done.

Next to his grave is a grave full of weeds and some of the graves nearby have sunk.

And there is nowhere for any of us to sit and reflect.

I will say that just a little further up the hill there is a magnificent plot, thanks to the dedication and hard work of one couple who mow the whole plot and tend to the plants.

We were told that all we could have was the headstone and a vase but like many others in that plot, we are now thinking of putting a fence and some sort of ground cover in order for my dad's final resting place to look halfway decent.

Mrs J Brown
Devonport Road
Worthing

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