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Although he couldn't save his grandmother Roberta Murphy, Richard Mason promised her dignity after death. Mason kept his vow, buying her a casket and burial at Graceland Cemetery in North Milwaukee. He often visits her there. Mason remains haunted by memories of Havenwood, the Milwaukee nursing home where Murphy suffered for weeks with a severe bedsore that sent her into a spiral toward death. Officials later raided the nursing home and shut it down.    
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