As Parrott and I were talking in front of the statue, a visitor from Davenport, Iowa came to see the angel. "I came to bring it a dime or a penny," says Jeff Chamberlain.

She says someone broke the head off of one angel statue, broke a wing off of another, and cracked a stone bench in two. “The cemetery was established around 1957.

The statue features angel wings behind Kobe and Gianna, a tribute to Kobe's childhood in Italy, and is surrounded by flowers.