Terry Finke places an American flag at his father's grave at Elm Grove Cemetery in St. Marys. Finke, who succeeded him as fourth-generation superintendent, dug the grave as well as those of his grandmother, friends and even high school classmates.

ST. MARYS - Terry Finke looks across rows of flower-decked gravesites at Elm Grove Cemetery and neighboring Gethsemane Cemetery, separated by a ribbon of asphalt called Greenville Road. Death has been part of life for the ceme . . .