Family members step up to cut grass at historic Blandford Cemetery: 'It gives you a good feeling'

Family members step up to cut grass at historic Blandford Cemetery: 'It gives you a good feeling'

PETERSBURG, Va. As summer heat and rain accelerate grass growth at Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery, two senior citizens are voluntarily maintaining family plots that city crews struggle to keep up with.Joey Kidd, 71, and Herbert Dance, 75, have taken it upon themselves to mow dozens of gravesites at Virginia's second-largest cemetery, where the oldest marker dates back to 1702."It gives you a good feeling," Kidd said. Dance maintains about 30 pl…