UPDATE: Possible grave sites may haunt Green Line proposal
by Garth Meyer The LA Metro Transportation Board has postponed a decision on a light rail extension through a North Redondo Beach/Lawndale right of way after possible gravesites were found in a Lawndale back yard. The matter came up Sept. 28 when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives confirmed the existence of grave sites – or at least buried headstones – in Josh Standifer’s yard in Lawndale, which is in the right of way. The news gave new energy to the grassroots effort to convince Metro to extend its Green Line down Hawthorne Boulevard on raised tracks, instead of next to homes along the right of way. Standifer’s neighbor, Jay Gould, 72, believes there are 14 graves on his and Standifer’s property, dating back to before Gould’s father owned the land, when the area was largely ranches. Gould and Standifer live at the end of West 172nd Street, and West 173rd Street, near South Bay Galleria. “There is at least one grave between the two properties,” said Lawndale city manager Sean Moore. “At least one headstone has a marking (Earle Hoffman, a World War II soldier who died in 1951), and there are potentially two more headstones. We’re not sure.” Moore said that maps indicate the…
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