TACOMA - There's no worse feeling than going to a cemetery to your loved one's gravesite and not knowing exactly where it is.

It happened to Kyle.

"Never found it," Kyle says.

A few weeks ago, he couldn't find where his great grandfather is buried because there is no headstone for William Wickman.

Charlie Neff, Jerry Block, and Margaret Gehris' families know exactly where to go to honor their relatives. Their marker is among the thousands at Tacoma's Oakwood Hill Cemetery. They could afford the headstones. The family of William Wickman could not.

It was 1925. The 30-year-old Tacoma police officer was just nine months on the job when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. His widow, raising two young daughters, couldn't afford it.

And so for 81 years, since that day William Wickman died: "You just have a plot of land and an area of grass and the approximate location of the grave, but you didn't know for sure," says Tacoma Police Officer Eric Timothy.

He's the department's 'historian' who discovered Wickman's gravesite had no headstone. The Tacoma Police department decided to change that, and give the family the best gift they could imagine.

"He got the marker," says Timothy. "A marker that he deserved 81 years ago, and now he's got it and now the family can know exactly where he's buried. "