Iraq Veteran's SpongeBob SquarePants Headstone Removed From Cemetery -- The Guardian
Cincinnati graveyard says 2m-high tribute to murdered woman is not appropriate despite earlier permission
An Iraq war veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone has been removed from her grave because officials at the historic Cincinnati cemetery deemed it inappropriate.
The headstone of Kimberly Walker, 28, was made in the likeness of her favourite cartoon character and erected at Spring Grove Cemetery on 10 October, almost eight months after her body was found in a Colorado hotel room.
Despite getting the cemetery's prior approval of the headstone's design – a smiling SpongeBob in an army uniform, with Walker's name and rank – her family said on Monday that cemetery staff called them the day after it was installed to say it would have to come down.
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