CINCINNATI — A local family finally has closure after a two-year battle with a cemetery to complete their father's grave marker.
Paul Oliver raised eight children, served in the U.S. Army, and spent his career driving for Cincinnati Metro. In fact, he was one of Cincinnati’s last living streetcar drivers before he died in 2013, laid to rest at Landmark Memorial Gardens on Oak Road, next to his wife.
But it wasn’t long before Oliver’s children realized something was missing from their father’s gravestone: a two-inch brass plate, meant to mark the year the veteran passed away.
His children say they had asked the cemetery several times to fix the issue, as recently as this past May.
“We went to the office at the cemetery and they said give us a few weeks,” said Oliver’s daughter, Lorie McKinney. “So, we gave them six weeks and still nothing.”
Adding to his children's frustrations, Oliver was a longtime member of Landmark Baptist Temple, which used to occupy the property where he and their mother are now buried.
WCPO reached out to Landmark, and the ministry's Children’s Director Tom Pflug said the situation is rare, should not have happened, and said it would be corrected right away.
Now, just hours after WCPO reached out to Landmark, the issue has been resolved.
WATCH in the video player above as four of Oliver’s daughters remember their father, and explain the significance of the brass plate that was once missing, but is now in place.
