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Even in Mississippi!
Alice D
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Subject: [MISSISSIPPI-L] Another funeral story
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Hi gang;
Here's another story about a family funeral we can learn from. A
friend of mine in Illinois lost his father and when the funeral
procession got to the cemetery they found a grave opened in a
different place than the one the father had purchased. Seems the
former owner of the cemetery had sold some of the plots more than once
and there was someone already buried in the one the father had
purchased. In addition the father had purchased a prepaid funeral and
the former owner had failed to advise the new cemetery owner of this
obligation. The cemetery honored the burial right but not the
prepurchase agreement which was with a different company set up by the
previous cemetery owner, and which was not purchased by the new owner.
Result, my friend's family paid for the funeral twice.
When you buy a cemetery plot, you're not buying the land, only the
contractual right to be buried there. Same deal with the burial
agreement. Both contracts are only as good as the companies you deal
with. Art
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