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How a music legend’s tombstone landed in N.J. woman’s backyard (and where it’s going next)
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 11, 2020
Frankie Lymon s tombstone sat in Pam Nardella s Elmwood Park backyard for the better part of a decade. Now it s headed out of New Jersey. Gary Johnson
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A granite tombstone sat in Pam Nardella’s Elmwood Park backyard for eight years.
It didn’t belong to anyone in her family, and it didn’t come with the house. In fact, no one was buried there.
But there is a story. Really, two stories: one about the man whose name is engraved in the stone, and another about the stone itself.