Lone Pine cemetery group eyes restoration, sanction

Aging tombstones sit atop a lonely hill outside Tekoa in the Lone Pine Cemetery.

A group of descendants of people buried in the Lone Pine Cemetery have been gathering to clean up the cemetery as a way of paying tribute to the finished lives that made their’s possible.

Friends of the Lone Pine Cemetery met Friday morning at the C and D Bar and Grill in Tekoa to eat some grub, swap news and talk over the next steps to improve the cemetery. They’ve been meeting once or twice a year for several years now, with an aim to get the cemetery looking new again.

One couple drove in all the way from Tacom...