Jimmy Koliakoudakis rides past Montreal’s Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery on his motorcycle nearly every day.
“I don’t want my mom to think we’ve abandoned her,” he said, holding onto the hope that the next time he passes what is supposed to be his mother’s final resting place, the gates will finally be open.
When Koliakoudakis’s father died in 2007, the family purchased plots for both his parents so they could be reunited. So far, that reunion has been put on hold.
Koliakoudakis’s mother died in February and she has been in cold storage ever since.
While the cemetery is reopening to visitors for Mother’s Day on Sunday, Koliakoudakis and many other
