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Written by DeadGirl
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Tuesday, 21 June 2005 |
By Jean-Paul Renaud
Staff Writer
June 21 2005
Fort Lauderdale · Her last wish was to be buried next to her daughter.
But as gravediggers stood over 81-year-old Cora Bell Jackson's plot last month, the day before her funeral, they discovered a sealed vault was already buried in her spot.
Officials at Sunset Memorial Gardens on NW 19th Street in Fort Lauderdale don't know if the mystery vault has a body in it. They don't know where it came from or how long it has been there.
And while attorneys go to Broward Circuit Court today to seek an order to dig up the vault, Jackson's family is furious over what was to be a quick and peaceful burial that has stretched into a month of anguish.
Jackson's body was kept in a funeral home for more than a month, while her family discussed alternatives with officials at the Fort Lauderdale-owned cemetery. Among other options, officials offered to exhume Jackson's daughter, Shirley Jackson, and bury the two in new plots side by side. But the family refused, saying they wanted the plots they had paid for 10 years ago.
"There's no way you can understand what I'm gong through right now," said her son Michael Jackson. "They offered me another spot somewhere else and they would move my sister. We didn't want to do all the digging up stuff. Let me tell you, my family was angry."
Jackson said another sister, as well as his grandmother, are also buried in the cemetery.
Attorneys for Carriage Services, which has operated the cemetery on behalf of the city since 1999, say they offered the Jacksons a grave in the mausoleum, which the family accepted as a temporary measure June 17. The company has no explanation for the occupied grave.
"We're frankly at a loss to understand what happened," said Christopher Schaeper, an attorney for the Houston-based company. "We want very quickly to be able to learn the situation of the vault in the ground and as quickly as possible make it possible for the internment of Ms. Jackson's remains."
City officials will wait for the vault of be exhumed, and then begin an investigation into how it ended up in a prepaid plot.
"We're going to do what we can to put some closure on this situation for the family," said David Hébert, the city's spokesman.
"We want to first and foremost put the family at the top of our priority list. There will be ample opportunity to conduct our investigation as to who's at fault."
Michael Jackson has filed a complaint against Carriage with the state's Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services. Officials there say this is the first such complaint against the company in at least five years.
Jean-Paul Renaud can be reached at
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or 954-356-4556.
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