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Family sues cemetery after body moved PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 27 July 2005
By LAURIE MASON
Bucks County Courier Times

MIDDLETOWN, PA - The family of a 19-year-old Philadelphia man whose body was moved from one grave to another after a divorce dispute is suing the Langhorne cemetery where his remains are buried.
Stephen Gregory Fuhrmeister died in a car crash on Nov. 27, 2003. He was buried at Our Lady of Grace Cemetery in a plot owned by his father's family.

Last year, court records say, his body was disinterred and moved to another gravesite in the same Middletown cemetery. The Fuhrmeisters' lawyer, Thomas Grier, said this was done at the direction of the teen's mother after a divorce.

Grier said the father's side of the family showed up one day to visit Stephen's grave and found it gone. They were not told Fuhrmeister had been moved to another gravesite, according to the suit, and cemetery employees refused to tell them where his body was.

"They were extremely upset," Grier said. "It took quite a long time to get some answers. They could not believe that the cemetery allowed this to happen."

The boy's mother is not named in the suit. According to the lawsuit, filed Monday in Bucks County court in Doylestown, Our Lady of Grace, off Route 1, was not permitted to open a grave without the consent of the plot's owner, the teen's paternal grandmother.

The family is seeking a jury trial and more than $50,000 in damages.

There was no answer Monday night at the cemetery's office, and the Courier Times was unsuccessful in reaching officials there for comment on the lawsuit.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-07262005-519115.html
 
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