Man says cemetery replaced mother’s grave with another’s.
Jerry Dover of Sarasota County, FL has spent a year trying to find out why a man’s tomb was placed where his mother’s grave has been. Last year on Mother’s Day when Dover went to tend his mother’s grave he found instead the grave of Walter Petty.
Dover is now suing Chandler’s Funeral Chapel accusing the business of inflicting emotional distress and interfering with a corpse.
It is just the latest controversy for Galilee Cemetery. Burials there were halted in January when The WoodlawnGalilee Cemetery Restoration Task Force voted to suspend all burials at both sites because neither site had accurate or complete burial records.via
Other people, including Sarasota County Commissioner Carolyn Mason, have said their relatives’ unmarked graves have probably had strangers entombed on top of them.
Anthropology professor Uzi Baram of New College began mapping and cataloging via www.heraldtribune.com
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The Veterans administration has opened a new National Cemetery in Pennsylvannia. In order to handle an increasing number of deceased veterans, Congress has ordered National Cemeteries to be opened across the United States.
Many longstanding National Cemeteries across America are out of space.
In the USA Veterans are entitled to a free burial in a National Cemetery. Here is some information on the latest Veteran Cemetery opening.
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the opening of the 131st national cemetery with the first burials taking place Jan. 20 at Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Newtown, Pa.
“With the opening of this new national shrine, many thousands of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Veterans and their families will have interment options available nearby, in a setting that is worthy of their service,” said Secretary Shinseki. “Providing lasting tributes to their sacrifices is one of VA’s most honorable missions, and one we are proud to fulfill.”
Administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the new 205-acre national cemetery in the Philadelphia area will serve Veterans’ needs for at least the next 50 years. The cemetery, which will serve approximately 580,000 Veterans in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, is located in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, about three miles northwest of Interstate 95 and less than three miles from Washington Crossing Historic Park.
In January 2008, VA awarded a design contract to Cairone & Kaupp Inc. of Philadelphia. VA has completed a 12-acre early burial area with temporary facilities, which will be followed by a second, larger construction stage of the project.
When that stage is completed, the 64-acre development will provide 15,500 full-casket gravesites, including 15,100 pre-placed crypts, 6,500 in-ground cremation sites and 4,100 columbarium niches.
The new cemetery will also include an administration and public information center complex and public restrooms, a maintenance facility, a cemetery entrance area, a flag assembly area and committal shelters for funeral services. Other infrastructure design elements include roadways, landscaping, utilities and irrigation.
The state’s other VA cemeteries are Philadelphia National Cemetery, Indiantown Gap National Cemetery and the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies. The Philadelphia National Cemetery no longer has burial space.-
Veterans with a discharge issued under conditions other than dishonorable, their spouses and eligible dependent children can be buried in a VA national cemetery. Also eligible are military personnel who die on active duty, their spouses…..via www1.va.gov
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Here is the Haiti Earthquake Mass Burial of the Dead Photo-” To Hell In a Dump Truck”
Mass Grave|Burial Photo source: JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/ FOR CNN
Mass Burials | Mass Graves are wrong in any culture, any time any place. This is true of Haiti, or any country even after an earthquake. Dump Truck Burials are unacceptable
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Burr Oak Cemetery has reopened (sort of). If want to check up on a loved one’s grave you can visit the cemetery before November 27th
Burr Oak Cemetery
You cannot drive there or walk in until November 27th 2009.Your ticket can be obtained from the owner of the Cemetery’s Burr Oak site, Perpetua, Inc at http://www.burroakalsip.com/
Burr Oak Cemetery is the site where Three Hundred Graves were desecrated and bones where piled up all over the Cemetery.Four people were arrested THERE IS MORE THAN A WORLD OF HURT THERE that still needs to still be resolved.
Part of the plan to keep traffic at the cemetery down is to open up on Black Friday the busiest shopping day of the Year.
In order to correct the Burr Oak Cemetery situation Illinois has proposed cemetery reform and the NATIONAL House of Representatives has proposed the Bereaved Consumers Bill of Rights Act.
The Cemetery Oversight Task Force in Illinois has issued it’s report to the Governor of the State of Illinois Patrick Quinn. To sum up the report, Cemetery Scandal is widespread across the State of Illinois and Legislative and regulatory action should be immediately taken.
llinois Cemetery report found Cemetery State Wide Problem
From the New York Times:
“A state task force set up to investigate the burial industry in the wake of widespread grave desecration at a cemetery outside Chicago concluded that abuse was probably widespread across the state due to a near-complete lack of regulation, the group told Gov. Patrick J. Quinn in a report.”
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This all was brought on by the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal near Chicago where nearly three hundred graves were desecrated and bones piled up around the cemetery.
Dover is now suing Chandler’s Funeral Chapel accusing the business of inflicting emotional distress and interfering with a corpse.
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