After graves stripped of decoration by cemetery, families express heartbreak Robert Garner, the director of operations at Floral Hill, said the purge of items from gravesites is a result of cemetery policy: the items were never allowed, but the cemetery was never strict about enforcing it. and last updated 2021-07-27 17:53:38-04 TAYLOR MILL, Ky. â Marie Coyle arrived at the Floral Hills Memorial Gardens cemetery on July 20 to visit her mother's grave on the anniversary of her death, only to find the grave stripped bare of all the lovingly placed decorations and memorabilia she'd left at the burial site. She wasn't the only one to arrive at the cemetery to find precious items, flowers and even toys left on children's graves in the cemetery dumpster instead of graveside, where they'd been left.