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Cemetery Trim
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A man is using a lawn mower between rows of gravestones. He has turned from it and is looking at the ground. Caption reads: "CEMETERY TRIM - Roger Reif, of Beechwood in Sheboygan County, paused to check his work while mowing the grass at St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery. Reif is the caretaker of the cemetery, on County Highway S just outside Beechwood."
June 14, 1984
Hartung, David
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