Alabama man who was arrested last month for littering after he placed a box of flowers at his fiancée’s grave in Auburn, according to reports.
Winchester Hagans lost his fiancée, Hannah Ford, in a car crash on January 17th, 2021, the same day the couple visited their future wedding venue in Notasulga, about 12 miles southwest of Auburn.Hagans said he remembered kissing Ford good-bye as she prepared to drive home to Montgomery, about 45 miles away, WRBL-TV reported.
Ford, 27, died in a three-vehicle car crash shortly after. It was roughly one month after he popped the question. "The last things I heard her say were, I love you, and I hate leaving you," Hagans told the station.After her death, Hagans built a flower box filled with her favorite flowers and covered it with engagement pictures for placement at Hannah’s grave at Auburn’s Memorial Park Cemetery.
He said he spoke with the city for the OK to place the flower box by her grave. RELATED: Montgomery may approve first fully 'green' cemetery"The people of the city told me they don’t enforce that unless a family member asked for it to be removed," said Hagans, according to WTVM-TV.Hagans noted the couple had a strained relationship with members of Ford's family, and someone kept throwing the flowers away.