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Stolen cemetery angel a mystery to be solved

Thursday, 21 October 2004

By CHANTE DIONNE WARREN

There's a "stolen angel" in Baton Rouge looking for its rightful home.

Members of the Mid City Historical Cemeteries Coalition retrieved the 21/2-foot, 100-plus pound, Italian hand-carved marble statue Oct. 4 from a New Orleans cemetery agency. But no one knows where and to whom the "stolen angel" belongs, said Jeremy Hendricks, urban planner for Mid City Redevelopment Alliance.

"It's a mystery," said Kristi George, director of the Mid City Historical Cemeteries Coalition, who retrieved the statue. "We just want to get her home," she said.

Details are sketchy, but the angel is believed to have disappeared from a Baton Rouge cemetery sometime in the 1980s, said Louise Saenz, director of Save Our Cemeteries in New Orleans.

An anonymous man called Saenz's office in September to return the statue on behalf of a dead friend whom he claimed had stolen the angel.

"He said he was going through a friend's belongings after his passing and he came across a statue he'd recognized," Saenz said.

"His friend, when younger, had gone and stolen it from a cemetery in Baton Rouge late at night, doing something silly," she said.

The anonymous man said he felt guilty enough for his friend to return the statue. "This was a guy trying to do a good thing. He felt like this would be a good thing to do for his friend and he knew his friend would want it to go back to the person it belonged to," Saenz said.

George and Hendricks, meanwhile, are planning to have the statue cleaned and restored to its original condition.

"She's in good shape and she's very valuable," George said.

The statue was likely kept both indoors and outdoors, judging from its condition, George said.

"The statue represents a family's love for that individual, and we might not know who they are; but, every person buried in these cemeteries, they are all a part of who we are," George said. "We know this man or woman was important to someone."

To report any information about the statue, call Mid City Redevelopment Alliance at (225) 346-1000.

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