'He Does Not Deserve to Lay in an Unmarked Grave'

Despite a sign on the gates that says Oakwood Memorial Park cemetery is a place of peaceful waiting, Loretta Rhodes feels her father isn't finding peace there. Willard Rhodes is buried in the cemetery, but you wouldn't know it by looking.

"My father, not only was he a veteran, he was a daddy, father, son, and he does not deserve to lay in an unmarked grave," she says.

Loretta Rhodes says the military gave her family a marker when Willard Rhodes was buried in May 2007. Loretta says the marker was knocked over in June 2007 and, by September 2008, it was gone.

"I spoke with the owner, and he said the stone was not broken (and) it was in the ground and, that week, someone would fix Daddy's stone," she said.

But no one ever repaired or replaced the marker. Plus, Rhodes is concerned no one is keeping up with the landscaping. A bare spot sits where her grandfather was buried in 2005.

"I come to this cemetery on a weekly basis. There have been times I had to bring my lawnmower and weed eater for my family's graves," she said.

Rhodes has tried to talk to cemetery owner Charlie Dye, and Tuesday, they connected. Dye agreed to replace the military marker, but Rhodes remains unsatisfied. She hopes he will clean up the family plots, because she doesn't want to go through this experience again.

"I have four (plots): my mother, an aunt and uncle, her father, her mother. It's going to be over and over," she said.