Two big-hearted volunteers have been scouring city cemeteries to find the unmarked graves of dozens of fallen NYPD officers — and raising money to honor their memory.
Christina Wilkinson, 51, in her role as president of the Newtown Historical Society, last year memorialized a police officer killed on duty in 1927 and laid to rest at All Faith’s Lutheran Cemetery in Queens.She looked for the grave but couldn’t find it. A cemetery map finally led her to an unmarked grave.
“She knew if anyone could find them, I could,” said Pisciotta, 52, whose real job is with MTA Bridges and Tunnels.He created a GoFundMe.com page for each officer and quickly collected enough funds to have headstones made by an Amish craftsman in Lancaster, Pa. He charged about $450 per stone. Patrolman Immen was shot and killed on Feb. 21, 1920, when he attempted to arrest two suspects for burglary in the Bronx, according to his pageChristina Wilkinson, 51, memorialized a police officer killed on duty in 1927 and laid to rest at All Faith’s Lutheran Cemetery in Queens.He saw three men acting suspiciously inside the store at 118th Street and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan around 10:30 p.m.
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