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Judge orders widow not to rebury husband's remains

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 26 August 2006
8/23/2006 The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A year after a dispute centering on a man's final resting place erupted between his parents and his widow, a judge has barred his widow from having his body exhumed from a Grand Rapids cemetery and reburied in Big Rapids. "We are tremendously relieved," the man's father, Russel Swaney, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Wednesday. "It's just great we've been able to keep him where he is." Workers at Woodlawn Cemetery were digging up William Swaney's casket in July 2005 when two of his nephews playing on the eighth hole of the adjacent Indian Trails Golf Course noticed the backhoe at their uncle's grave. That was when Swaney's parents and siblings learned that his widow, Kimberly Swaney, had taken out a permit to have his body exhumed. In applying for the exhumation, Kimberly Swaney said she wanted her late husband reburied near other family members in a Roman Catholic cemetery in Big Rapids, about 50 miles north of Grand Rapids. The workers stopped the exhumation and replaced the soil when William Swaney's family objected. In May, his parents, Russel and Jean Swaney, and Joshua Swaney, his 17-year-old son from a previous marriage, sued Kimberly Swaney, asking that she not be allowed to continue with the exhumation. The lawsuit claimed that the couple had been repeatedly estranged in their five-year marriage. Kimberly Swaney did not return the newspaper's telephone messages seeking comment. There was no answer Wednesday at her home. William Swaney suffered a stroke on the eve of his 41st birthday and died in August 2003. With Kimberly Swaney's consent, his parents bought four plots in Woodlawn Cemetery and arranged for him to be buried there, according to the lawsuit. But the day before the funeral, Kimberly Swaney demanded that the family sign the four plots over to her or she would not agree to have him buried there, the lawsuit charged. After the two sides negotiated a settlement, Kent County Circuit Judge Donald Johnston dismissed the case and issued an order Aug. 2 barring the widow from having the body dug up and moved. The reason behind the judge's decision was unclear. A telephone call seeking comment was made to his office late Wednesday afternoon, but he had left for the day. http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-37/1156370359178040.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

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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