Few claim 1,300 empty plots in Lynden, Greenwood cemeteries
Few people have claimed the roughly 1,300 empty plots at Lynden and Greenwood cemeteries since the entity that cares for both put out the call three years ago for possible owners to come forward.
"There were not a lot of people over the three-year period," said Richard Decima, a Whatcom County Cemetery District 10 commissioner. "We really didn't know whether many of those plots had been sold in the first place."