Call for Action team helps woman get her mother's headstone completed

(WXYZ) - Alone in her home in Northwest Detroit, Barbara Hicks practices a gospel song that she will soon be singing in church.

It has been a rough year for Barbara because this past May she lost her best friend, her mother.  At 93-years old, Ms. Daisy Cole returned home, after leading a very busy, hard-working life.

During their lives together, Daisy and her husband Noah did work very hard and they meticulously planned out everything - including how and where they would be buried.

For $1,000 they purchased a dual burial plot at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.  In fact they bought that plot way back in 1988.

But this past May when Daisy died, Barbara says a troubling problem involving her headstone developed.

 You see, the inscription on that marker was never completed, so Daisy’s final resting place remained unfinished.

First Barb complained to cemetery officials, but nothing happened.

So for seven long months Barbara visited her mother’s grave with tears in her eyes, month after month after month.

“Sometimes I would break down and cry.  Sometimes I would just get angry”, Barbara says.

Finally, with nowhere else to turn, that’s when Barbara called the Call for Action team.

Immediately, we called the top managers at Woodlawn Cemetery. 

We explained all of the heartache that Daisy had been living through after the passing of her mother and within a couple days, cemetery workers completed that headstone, just as we asked.

At last, Barbara thought, “My parents can finally rest in peace, with all of their final, plans honored to the letter.”