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Local residents attempt to clean Collegedale overgrown cemetery

William Paris looks through papers on the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Summit where he says his parents were buried in 1988.

William Paris, 64, kneels near a dumpster and looks at paperwork on the 14-acre Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery where he says his parents were buried in 1988.

William Paris tries not to step on two sunken burial plots at the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Summit. The 14-acre property is unkept to the point that Paris is having trouble locating his parents graves.

William Paris, 64, stands in one of the few cleared areas at the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery. Paris says his parents were buried there in 1988.

This grave marker appears to be the most recent at the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Summit. Buried in August of 2015, the grave has no sign of grass growing atop the rocky covering.

William Paris looks at a recent grave inside the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Summit. The 14-acre property is mostly unkept.

William Paris, 64, walks past downed trees in the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery where clean up is underway on the 14-acre property in Summit.

William Paris, 64, talks about the 14- acres that is Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery. Paris is having trouble finding the graves of his parents in the unkept Summit cemetery.

William Paris, 64, approaches one of the many unkept graves in the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery where he says his parents were buried in 1988. Now, Paris is having trouble finding their graves in a Summit cemetery, much less the deed to the 14-acre property they are buried on.

William Paris, 64, walks along Pattentown Road where tire have been cleared to the roadside at the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Summit. Paris' parents are buried there on the unkept 14-acre property.

William Paris, 64, talks about unkept conditions at the Floral Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Summit. Paris says his parents were buried there in 1988. Now with the property overgrown, he is having trouble finding their graves.

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