Graveyard saved by generous tombstone makers

As a direct result of your article on our family's Halloween "grave robbers" theft incident reported in the Nov. 1 Thousand Oaks Acorn, how about a postscript with a very happy ending?

We had many friends and people who we've never met come up to us and express how very sorry they were that our graveyard decorations--tombstones--had been heisted.

However, we got a very interesting call on the afternoon of Fri., Nov. 1 from a Mr. John Naulin of Newbury Park.

As it turns out, Mr. Naulin is in the film/TV/entertainment industry as both a writer and, apparently, a prop designer, too.

He told my wife, Vi, that he had some tombstones with funny epitaphs that he'd made that were very professional and authentic in appearance. He said that as a result of our bad experience, he wanted to give our family all four of the tombstones that he had been displaying in his front yard.

So he invited us over to his home, and he and his wife--I can't recall her name--were very kind and gracious as they gave us these fantastic real-looking tombstones for us to display in our frontyard for future Halloweens.

It put a smile on our daughter's face, as well as the rest of my family. Needless to say we were very touched by this random act of kindness and simply thought you folks at the Acorn may like to know about this.

There are a lot of good people in the Conejo Valley, and this proves it.

Thanks so much to the Naulin family.
The Herold family
Thousand Oaks