Staff report
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Recently, Patty and Guillermo Hernandez stopped into The Chronicle-News offices before returning home after spending a couple days cleaning and caring for the Hoehne cemetery where members of their family are laid to rest.

On this trip, Patty and Guillermo took particular interest in two damaged gravestones and are hoping readers of The Chronicle-News can help them learn more about people represented on the stones and maybe even where the markers were originally.

The Hoehne Cemetery is behind the old St. John’s Catholic Church on County Road 40.7, but the entrance is off County Road 83.8. The church is now a private residence and the owner has put up a fence so the cemetery cannot be seen from the front of the church.

Said Guillermo, “I hope that we can find the information that we need to be able to place the markers back where they belong.”

One headstone is mostly intact and was a grave marker for Joseph Zanotelli with the printed dates 1899-1944. The second headstone has broken into two pieces. That headstone reads “Venna E. Keller” with the dates 1890-1919 and the inscription “Gone but not forgotten.”

If you, or someone you know, might have information regarding the headstones, reach out to Chronicle-News editor Eric John Monson at editor@trinidadchroniclenews.com, or call 719-846-3311.

We will update you all when we learn more.