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Show City maintains indigent burial policy At the suggestion of the Pleasant Grove City Sexton, the Pleasant Grove City Council decided to keep he present city policy on burying at city expense the bodies of those who cannot afford burial costs. The city council did state that each case would be reviewed individually. in-dividually. The sexton said that the city has such a case arise very rarely. He said that he knew of only four pauper graves at the present time. Councilman David Dickerson said that the sexton reported one incident where the family said they could not afford to bury the individual and so the person was placed in the cemetery at county expense. Later the family had a fine monument put on the grave. |