Mt. Pleasant Cemetery struggles to maintain property amid rising costs, fewer lots purchased

Bev Lazor places flowers at a loved ones’ gravesite with her husband, Dale Lazor (back) at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant on May 26. Her mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle are buried at the cemetery, located off Braddock Road Avenue.

Cemetery volunteer Kevin Vought cuts the grass at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in the absence of a professional service as the cemetery association can no longer afford a grass-cutting service, Greensburg, on Friday, June 14, 2024.

A gravesite at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is overgrown with grass on May 23.

Cemetery volunteer Brian Vought cuts the grass at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in the absence of a professional service as the cemetery association can no longer afford a grass-cutting service, Greensburg, on Friday, June 14, 2024.

Cemetery volunteer Brian Vought refills the lawn mower to cut the grass at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in the absence of a professional service as the cemetery association can no longer afford a grass-cutting service, Greensburg, on Friday, June 14, 2024.

Ron Sistek, a Mt. Pleasant native, plants fresh flowers at a loved ones’ gravesite on May 26. Sistek grew up going to the cemetery with his father, tending to the gravesites of deceased family members.

A fallen tree branch lays on top of an American flag left at a gravesite of a military veteran at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on May 23.

A fallen tree branch covers a gravesite at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on May 23.

A gravesite at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is overgrown with grass on May 23.