For Robert Clayton I went to nearby Holy Sepulchre Cemetery to look for the only Hlinovsky in Omaha cemetery records, a Frank Hlinovsky, who died 8 March 1947. The wonderfully helpful groundskeepers had me call a central office and then obtained faxes so we could locate the spot, an unmarked county grave on the very east edge of this very large cemetery, the first row west from the wire fencing. Any family wanting to locate the shallow grave has to find a John J. Butler to the immediate left of the Hlinovsky site, looking west, as demonstrated in the photos below. It's the 14th plot from the north end of that first row. The second photo shows the approximate location in relation to the rest of the cemetery, the bulk of which is over the hill, thousands of graves. A large upright Walsh marker is off to the southwest a ways up the hill.
Afterwards, thinking about the solitary 69-year-old with a family name, I walked around Elmwood Park in the humid 80 degrees that set spring bursting, as demonstrated in the photos below, a variegated wood violet illustrating Mendel's laws between the more usual purple and white ones, the blooming wood violet always our childhood sign it was finally spring in Center. Marilynn Peterson and I would go down to the Coulee Creek almost daily to look for it. While I walked along the edge of Elmwood's spring-fed brook ravine, I discovered new beaver work, a bed of sweet cicely, and a plague of ground ivy (the tiny scalloped leaves in the violet photo), both in pioneer herbals. The next day dropped 40 degrees into chilly rain.
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