WARREN, Minnesota – Victor Sweeney steps briskly across the cemetery lawn like someone intimately familiar with every square foot of it.

Because he is.

“Come over here,” he motions to visitors, leading the way while navigating the rows of headstones. “Let me show you something.”

His enthusiasm for this place, and for those laid to rest here, is contagious. The solemn setting is a silent backdrop to his lively personality, fairly bubbling over with insights and anecdotes.

These are people whose history he knows and understands, either by study of records or through the memories of relatives – or because he put them here himself.

Sweeney, who joined DuBore Funeral Home as a funeral director in 2014, has, in recent years, funneled wisdom accrued from his position to create a podcast – an

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