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Woman sues cemetery PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Woman sues cemetery saying son's body was moved
Associated Press
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A mother is suing a cemetery after she says her son's casket was dug up and moved without informing the family.

Debra Polson, whose 21-year-old son, Jonathan, died Dec. 3 and was buried at Heritage Memorial Gardens four days later, said in her lawsuit that the family noticed a marker with another man's name at the site about three weeks after her son's burial.

Her attorney, state Rep. Scott Talley of Spartanburg, said the cemetery violated South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control regulations by failing to have a licensed funeral director present or obtaining permits to remove Jonathan Polson's casket from its grave.

The complaint said the cemetery's conduct "was so extreme and outrageous to exceed all possible bounds of decency and must be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in our civilized society."

Greenville attorney Kyle Thompson, who represents the cemetery's parent company, Lanford Memorial Parks, said the company had not been served with the lawsuit and had no comment.

According to the lawsuit, when the family first noticed the marker the other man's name, cemetery management told them they had been visiting the wrong grave. The lawsuit claims that managers later confirmed that Polson's vault had been moved to another part of the cemetery because he had originally been buried in a plot owned by another family.



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