'My mother's grave is now a driveway': Winnipegger shocked to find tire tracks over grave
Kap Palmer says he was in disbelief when he saw the ground above his mother’s grave had been used as a road
When Kap Palmer went to visit his mother's grave in Winnipeg on Mother's Day he was shocked to find it had well-worn tire marks across it.
"I thought, 'What? My mother's grave is now a driveway, like a roadway.' It's unbelievable right. I had shock in the beginning," Palmer said.
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His mother, Verna, was buried in the Green Acres Funeral Cemetery on Fermor Avenue following her death in 2004 because Palmer and his siblings live in the Windsor Park area.
When he arrived on Sunday, the grass around the headstone was yellowed from tire tracks. The tracks also went over about four other graves.
"It was shock and disbelief," Palmer said.
Palmer told his father about what happened at the gravesite and learned that his father had already contacted the cemetery to complain. His father was told they needed to drive across the grave in order to get to a different area for work, Palmer said.
"My dad also asked them why didn't you drive on the other side of the trees and they didn't really give him a good explanation except work has to be done," Palmer said pointing to an open field not far from the grave.
CBC has reached out to Green Acres Funeral Home and Cemetery for comment.
Palmer said he hopes that cemetery staff will stop driving over his mother's grave and work to restore the grass around the area.
"There's not much you can do now, just have them say it will never be done again," he said.
"Let them rest in peace."
with files from Courtney Rutherford