Ever since she could drive, maybe even longer than that, Teresa Wentworth can remember picking daffodils, some from the side of the road, to lay at her father’s and nephews’ graves at Evergreen Memorial Gardens.
She still does, she said, but now she picks and lays thousands more to set on the graves of strangers as part of an annual tradition for her and her family.
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