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February 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Leon Watson
Last updated at 3:16 PM on 9th February 2012
A grieving daughter has told how she stumbled across cemetery workers burying another person in her mother’s grave.
Carol Stone, 49, desperately halted a funeral with the hearse just yards from the plot after spotting a large funeral party gathered at her mother Joyce’s graveside.
Heartbreakingly, she had gone to the cemetery to mark the second anniversary of her mother’s death when she spotted the the mix-up.
Distressed: Carol, with her brother Rob Stone, next to her mother’s grave after the earth above it was dug up and then replaced following a mix-up
The late Joyce Stone whose grave was dug up in error when her daughter visited on the anniversary of her death
And after rushing up to the plot, she was stunned to find cemetery workers had dug a shallow grave where her mother was already buried.
Memorial items left by family – including a wooden cross and potted plant – had also been thrown to the side by careless workers as another family prepared to bury their loved one on top of Joyce.
Ms Stone, from Warmley, Bristol, said: ‘I am absolutely devastated. If I hadn’t visited at that specific time another person would have been buried in the same plot as my mum.
‘My dad has always wanted to be buried there and we had hoped the spot would be saved for him.
‘A wooden cross my brother had made which had a photo our mum on it had just been pushed to the side.
‘There was also a potted plant and some flowers I had left last week that had also been moved.’
Ms Stone quickly halted the ceremony before bungling cemetery staff realised their mistake.
And after checking with bosses, they realised that the person was meant to be buried in a plot three spaces away – not Joyce’s.
Luckily the grave had not been dug deep enough to reach her mother’s coffin – but the other person was due to be buried on top, in a shallower grave.
Family and friends of the person about to be buried then faced an upsetting 25 minute wait for a new plot to be dug before they could pay their final respects to their loved one.
Mistake: The grave of Joyce Stone at Avonview Cemetery in St George, Bristol
Ms Stone added: ‘I don’t understand how the cemetery staff could have thought it was alright to bury another person there.
‘Surely
it’s not normal practice to bury a stranger with someone who only died
two years ago. When I complained to the person in charge he admitted
they had made a mistake.
‘I
was so upset to have to watch the soil go back in – it was like going
back two years and having to go through it all over again.
‘I am still dealing with my mother’s death and this has just opened another can of worms.
‘The fact that it was the second anniversary of her death just made it all the worse. I’m not looking to gain anything from this, but simply want to know that it won’t happen again.’
To add insult to injury, Ms Stone can no longer place anything by her mother’s grave for a year – so ‘the ground can settle’.
Ms Stone’s
mother Joyce, who lived in Fishponds, Bristol, with her father Jim,
died aged 81 on February 7, 2010, after suffering from heart disease.
Ms Stone is now the full-time carer for her father, 88, who is disabled and suffers from heart disease and deep vein thrombosis.
Her brother Ronald Stone, 58, also from Bristol, has also been left shocked by the mistake.
He blasted: ‘I can’t believe what has happened. I feel awful that my sister had to go through all this.
‘We have been told to wait for a phone call from the cemetery supervisor, but are both just stunned by what happened.’
A council spokeswoman said: ‘We deeply regret the distress caused to Carol Stone, her family and the other family concerned over this terrible mix up at Avonview Cemetery.
‘This mix-up was due to basic human error failing to identify the correct plot and we offer our sincere apologies.
‘In this extremely rare case, our level of service and care fell well short of the high standards we set ourselves.
‘We will be writing to both parties affected by this incident. We will of course look again at our procedures and triple-checking our records to ensure this does not happen again.’
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My Grandmother, Grandfather and one of my aunts is buried there. Glad to see they’re taken care of…
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Totally agree micheline. And it appears graves just aren’t good enough these days….people feel the need to mourn for their loved ones on the spot they actually passed…ie on the side of the road, at the foot of a lampost. I feel for them all, I really do….but if I’m enjoying a rather nice trip in to work, that’s really the last thing I wish to see, constant reminders of others grieving. – Claire, Surrey, 9/2/2012 15:14 = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
That’s a bit harsh but I often wish that those who leave flowers would remove the wrapping paper. It’s impossible to see any flowers even when they’re fresh, but long after they’ve rotted away the wrappers remain flapping in the wind. Those who leave these mementos never think to return later to remove the remains and I’ve been clearing such rubbish from a site nearby for the last fifteen years . Remember the ‘flowers’ left when Princess Diana died and all that was to be seen was a sea of wrapping paper?
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Get cremated so much better.
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I wasn’t going to comment on this but accidentally green arrowed Mrs L from Huddersfield instead of red arrowing her. Mrs L you say that you appreciate that people grieve in different ways yet you still refer to the so called cheap trinkets and tat and accuse them of being disrespectful. This woman lost her Mother who are you to say how she should express that grief. I fully expect my comment will be red arrowed as I see a lot of people think this is a non news story and they need to get over it, this family is grieving for a loved one and what happened to them was awful, my sympathies go out to them
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Some people may need somewhere to go to remember their loved ones but a cemetery is just to cold and impersonal. Pus there are surely not an infinite number of plots. People need to start doubling up. Just because a grave has been there 200 years and no one visits anymore does not make it less important that one that has been there for 2 years. I’m getting cremated!~
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“….When I die people can put me where ever it hardly matters….” It’s not about YOU, pugamug! Stay on topic….this was a distressing experience for a bereaving family.
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“…So distressed she goes to the press to make it public?…” If Mrs Stone had not publicised this matter what would the council’s response have been? As it is, they will have to re-assess their procedures and checks. Who knows how often this has happened and not been caught?
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i have relatives buried in Bristol, they paid for 60 years they have not been laid to rest for 60 years..and now there are others buried on the same plot. WHY ………surely this isnt right, when they have already paid for that plot and for the powers that be think its alright to use the plot riding ruff shod over the relatives that are left. , the monies that were paid should be given back to the family
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Over here, one buys a burial plot for 20 years. If they do not allow an extension, you are given one years notice and the grave is dug over, sceletal remains destroyed and in goes the next guy after another 6 months of ground settlement. – Ex Pat, Germany, 9/2/2012 13:00———- Yes, I believe we are all painfully learning by now just how much the human being is respected “over there”, alive or dead.
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The exact same happened to the grave next to my younger brother’s soon after he was buried after a long fight with bowel cancer; workers buried a woman in the wrong grave on top of a man who had only died a few months beforehand. They caused my brother’s grave to start collapsing on the shared wall between the graves, by digging too large a hole, and the family were so upset, as this all happened on 23rd Dec. Had to rush to get a court order to exhume the body and bury correctly before Christmas. My mum was so distraught too because of the time of year, and her 23 year old son had only been dead 6 months and his grave was wrecked. They really do just need to double-check plot numbers, without sounding patronising, it’s not too difficult!
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Graveyards should be places of dignity, not filled with cheap plastic flowers. I saw one family celebrate the 21st birthday of their child and the grave was filled with birthday cards and fluffy toys; the child had been dead 10 years. It seems so macabre.
– micheline b , uk, 9/2/2012 13:29
Totally agree micheline. And it appears graves just aren’t good enough these days….people feel the need to mourn for their loved ones on the spot they actually passed…ie on the side of the road, at the foot of a lampost. I feel for them all, I really do….but if I’m enjoying a rather nice trip in to work, that’s really the last thing I wish to see, constant reminders of others grieving.
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