The cemetery started as a single grave in 1912. Now it's a cornerstone for Mexican culture and local families' legacies.
speculated in 2012 that Maria could be buried underneath the wood and metal shack at the center of the cemetery that was once used as a viewing room.
But people who had family buried there continued to care for the property. In the ’60s, Dario Rodriguez became the cemetery’s manager. He was in charge of keeping track of who was and would be buried at Maria de la Luz. “He believed that was his cemetery,” Flatt says. “He worked on it long enough. Nobody else cared about it. ‘Now you want to take it away from me? How dare you?’”“They started talking to people and somebody says, ‘Well, I own this space.’ And somebody goes, ‘Well, wait a minute, I own that space, too,’” Flatt says. “He was double selling spaces, putting all the money in his pocket instead of putting it into a fund for the needs of the cemetery.
“It's so interesting to see the two cultures just like sitting across the street from each other,” she says.
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