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2 women preserve Iowa's history by cleaning Boone County headstones

"They just need to be looked at and taken care of and if we don't do it, who's going to do it," said Dixie Magden.

BOONE, Iowa — Two women, Amy Laube and Dixie Madgen, are preserving Iowa's history by cleaning headstones in a Boone County cemetery. 

"I don't think it was always as important to take care of them so much. And so, they've just gotten overlooked and forgotten about for so many years," Laube said.

They say it's important to always remember who the pioneers of the community were and to take care of the history.

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