Widow of OH Firefighter Says Statue was Stolen from Grave

A woman is pleading for whoever stole a memorial statue from her late husband's grave site in Nimishillen Twp. to return it. 

Scott Hickinbotham was 28 when he died from leukemia more than 30 years ago. 

After Hickinbotham's death, Barbara Schaefer Hickinbotham Huhn continued to visit Union Cemetery with their four children, even after she remarried, according to the Canton Repository. 

Years ago, they placed a two-foot tall statue of a firefighter at the site and when Huhn returned to the grave on on Feb. 20, it was gone. A rose bush was stolen from the grave site many years ago.

"People don't have any respect for the living or the dead," Huhn told the newspaper.

Hickinbotham was a firefighter and EMT with Pleasant Grove and Louisville city fire departments before he was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma.

No comment was received by the newspaper from Union Cemetery representatives.