 Santa knows where to find all the best and hottest smartphones just in time to make this Christmas better and bigger than ever. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. At Christmas time it is only natural for thoughts to turn to family and loved ones, even or perhaps especially those who have already passed. On Saturday night in McDowell, a special lighting event was held at Lucy Hall Cemetery to share the holidays with those who are no longer with us. Twenty years ago I started this by myself, just me. Nineteen years later, here we are. My husband got killed and I had to come and I brought the candle and I said the next year I asked my daughter, I said, if I feel this way there's more people, so why can't we just start it? So we started, I put the flowers out, we started and everybody responded and this is what we got. Look at it. And at sunset Saturday evening, that dream was realized. Oh my God, pretty, pretty, this is what we wanted, everyone of us. Pulling off the event was anything but easy. Organizers spent months reaching out to the community for donations and then there was the matter of adding lights to all of the more than nine hundred graves in the cemetery and along the drive. We started out this morning with over twelve hundred lights to put on here. And every one of them was put in the ground. Yes. Everybody here got a lot on the grave. But as the effort to honor loved ones took shape, something else happened. And it brought our community together to do this, that this little community is fragmented but for that little time it brought us all together today. All in all, Adams, Moore and Freiman say the lights symbolize the deepest meanings of Christmas. Love, love, hope, everything about Christmas, the memories don't die. Reporting in McDowell, I'm Ralph Davis for EKB News.