Jasper Co. man pleads for return of angel statue to mother’s gravesite

TILLMAN, S.C. (WTOC) - A Lowcountry man is calling for someone to return his mother’s angel statue.

He says someone took it from her gravesite, and he hasn’t seen it in two weeks.

Floyd Cemetery is off the beaten path in Tillman and is a place that’s hard to find if you don’t know where to look.

Victor Mock visits his parents’ gravesite every month, and when he visited on Thanksgiving, the statue that had sat there for five years next to his mother’s grave was missing.

“I just want my momma’s angel back,” Mock said.

The angel stood next to Gloria Woods Mock’s grave as a last request before her passing in 2020.

“She said, ‘Make sure you put my angel on my grave for me.’ And I did. It kinda feels like I let my mom down,”

A source of inspiration for Gloria until the very end.

“She had