IndigentFuneral

18 MARCH 2010 - SURPRISE, AZ: Deacon Charles Shaw (CQ), Sts. Simon and Jude Cathedral, officiates at the funerals for indigent people in White Tanks Cemetery on Camelback Rd. in an unincorporated part of the county near Surprise. The county spent about $2.5 million to inter indigent people in what is Maricopa County's "potters field." About 3,000 people, children and adults, are buried in the dusty field west of Phoenix. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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18 MARCH 2010 - SURPRISE, AZ: Deacon Charles Shaw (CQ), Sts. Simon and Jude Cathedral, officiates at the funerals for indigent people in White Tanks Cemetery on Camelback Rd. in an unincorporated part of the county near Surprise. The county spent about $2.5 million to inter indigent people in what is Maricopa County's "potters field." About 3,000 people, children and adults, are buried in the dusty field west of Phoenix. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ