St. Louis Public Radio
Kristyn Stevens replenishes a row of crosses on Saturday. The family has sold gravestone arrangements from the same lot since the late 1980s.
For the past 33 years, the Stevens family has sold patriotic floral arrangements for graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery to visitors nearly every weekend.
The only days they missed were for weddings, baptisms and the occasional snowstorm. They started selling arrangements from the lot at the intersection of Telegraph and Sheridan roads in south St. Louis County before an Advance Auto Parts store was built on it. The burst of American flags and flowers sticking out of the grass, waiting to be plucked by passersby is hard to miss.