A short email received two weeks ago prompted the search for graves. Perhaps the relatively slow weekend, with little happening, contributed to the decision to explore the final resting place of two missionaries, René Cuénod and his wife, Marguerite.
“My grandfather was a Swiss missionary who worked in the area of Louis Trichardt, the Swiss mission hospital, Lemana, and Valdezia,” wrote Michael A. Cuénod. He explained that his grandfather had died around late 1980 and was buried alongsi...