A Queensland household has been left heartbroken after discovering their beloved one was buried within the improper cemetery plot, regardless of her dying want to be buried alongside her mother and father.
Sonia Jordan’s remaining request was that she be laid to relaxation alongside her mother and father. As a substitute, when the 75-year-old died in February, she was buried alone at Brisbane’s Pinnaroo Garden Cemetery.
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“She’s within the new part a number of hundred meters from the oldest part, which is the place (her mother and father) are positioned,” Jordan’s son-in-law Nick Edwards informed 7NEWS.
Jordan’s household had no thought of ​​the bungle till they went to get a plaque made and realized she was within the improper plot.
Her daughter Peta Edwards mentioned it was her dying want to be buried on prime of her mum and pop.
“The cemetery mentioned, ‘No, we have two. Your mother and father are in a single grave and (she) is in one other’ and that is how we discovered,” she informed 7NEWS.
The error means Jordan will have to be exhumed and re-buried, irritating her household.
“I really feel fairly indignant,” Peta mentioned.
A second burial will happen subsequent week, though a day has not but been set.
For Peta, it would imply reliving the trauma of claiming goodbye to her mum another time.
The Brisbane Metropolis Council blames a paperwork mix-up on “an error by a non-public funeral director” saying the “matter has been resolved in shut session with the household”.
The council says it has additionally reimbursed all prices to the household.
The funeral house didn’t reply to 7NEWS’ requests for remark.
