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FindAGrave.com is a wonderful site. It allows you to view graves of relatives you've just discovered online or to request a picture to be taken of relatives who are buried far away.

I recently got an email alerting me that someone in Bakersfield, CA received, accepted and fulfilled my photo request for the headstone of Lupe Avila.

Thanks to "Diane H" for this photo, now completing Lupe Avila's FindAGrave profile.

I still hope to actually see it in person. I'm still not sure what she died of, how or where. Hopefully that will be listed on her death certificate, but for now, we finally know what her headstone looks like..."at Rest With Jesus"

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