Clearfield County cemetery is off limits to visitors
PENFIELD - People in Clearfield County are being stopped from visiting the graves of loved ones.
People with family buried at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Penfield said they noticed a fence with a no trespassing sign sometime last week around the graveyard.
Property records show Bruce Gerber owns the property.
People visiting the cemetery said they were told Gerber is stopping them from entering because of liability issues.
6 News tried calling a number believed to be Gerber's but those calls were not returned.
Glenn Lucore said his mother, father, aunt and cousins are buried at Mt. Pleasant.
"Mother's Day is coming up and we usually put flowers on her grave," Lucore said. "We cant even go in there and do it."
Sue McCoy said her family buried her nephew at Mt. Pleasant in September 2016. His headstone was expected to be delivered by Memorial Day.
"We want to put some flowers on his grave and put a headstone up there so everybody knows that Danny was in the service and that he put 20 years in," McCoy said.
A former deed to the property from 1928 said the plot "is to be reserved as a cemetery lot."
An attorney representing the Huston Township cemetery association said until they can figure out what's legal, she plans to file a preliminary injunction to stop Gerber from preventing visitors' entry.
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