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Husband sues after cemetery buries another next to his wife

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 23 October 2004
October 18, 2004 BY STEVE PATTERSON Staff Reporter When Virgie Thompson died in 2002, her husband made sure he would be buried right next to her. Robert Thompson bought side-by-side plots at Oak Ridge-Glen Oak Cemetery and made plans for a double headstone, anticipating they'd be close again someday. But in a lawsuit filed last week in Cook County Circuit Court, the Matteson man says someone else is now buried next to his wife. "The guy out there looked, and he told me, 'We goofed,' " Thompson recalled. "He said he can't move the body that's there, but he could move my wife. He said he wanted to work with me, give me a discount on the headstone, but I told him I'm not bargaining and I'm not out for any favors. I just want to be buried in the right place." Thompson also says this wasn't the first problem he had with officials at the Hillside cemetery. Two mistakes for price of none As his wife's funeral procession came into the cemetery Nov. 18, 2002, he said, he realized they were headed the wrong way. "They dug a hole for her around the corner from the grave I bought," Thompson said. "I told them to put her back in the hearse, and we went into the mausoleum until they could get her to where she was supposed to be." That mistake, coupled with the error of burying someone else next to his wife, led to his lawsuit against the cemetery and its employee, Leroy Palmer, he said. Cemetery president Robert Harvey said that while a mistake might have been made, there is also room for compromise. He acknowledged the offer of a discount on a headstone and also said he offered Thompson the plot on the left side of his wife, to no avail. "It's unbelievable the things people will sue for," Harvey said. "Did she get buried in the wrong spot? Did he buy the wrong grave site? I don't know." He said Palmer, who no longer works for the cemetery, denied he ever confessed to a mistake. Thompson, a retired truck driver who brought up two sons with his wife of 47 years, says there is no confusion about what he bought. Other family buried there His wife, who grew up in Maywood, wanted to be close to other family members buried at the cemetery. After she died of pancreatic cancer, he said, he honored that wish, though he admits to some regrets, given the circumstances. "She was my wife," he said. "I want to put in our grave stone. But if I do it now, I'm putting it on hers and another person's." http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cemetery18.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries