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Dillon Montana - embroiled in burial mistake complaint

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
DILLON - A man whose parents were buried in the wrong cemetery plot, then dug up and reburied in another plot without his knowledge, is seeking damages from the city. Attorneys for Matt Pyeatt and the city's insurance provider have been in negotiations to settle his complaint, but have not reached an agreement. No lawsuit has been filed. The city's cemetery sexton, Dan Devers, buried the remains of Pyeatt's parents, Marion and Margaret Pyeatt, in the wrong plot last winter at the Mountain View Cemetery. When he realized the mistake this spring, Devers removed the remains and buried them in the plot the family bought. He did not notify Matt Pyeatt that he had moved the bodies. "I made a mistake and I haven't denied that," Devers said last week. "I apologized to Matt, and I didn't sleep for a couple weeks because of what I did." Ron Briggs, the Beaverhead County coroner and owner of Brundage Funeral Home and Chapel, has criticized the way officials handled the situation once it was determined the bodies had been buried in the wrong plot. "I could understand if somebody was buried in the wrong place," Briggs said. "What I'm concerned about is for disinterment and re-interment, there are certain legal procedures that need to occur before that happens." Generally, a family's permission is needed and a court order obtained in order to dig up remains. Devers contends that Briggs gave him permission in April to move the remains. Mayor Marty Malesich said Devers should have contacted Pyeatt before moving the remains, but contends that failing to do so didn't constitute a crime. Even if Pyeatt and the insurance carrier reach a settlement, it won't include moving the remains back to their original burial location, Malesich said. "We can't move them back to where they were originally buried, because it doesn't belong to them," he said.

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