Family distraught as wrong headstone put on grave

A FAMILY has been left distraught after the wrong headstone was placed on their mother's grave.

Margaret Grant died last November at the age of 79, after a four-year battle with cancer.

She was buried in Beeston Cemetery, near where she used to live.

Her daughter Joan Haken, 53, of Sawley, went to see the new headstone last Thursday – but was horrified to read someone's else name on the stone which had been placed where both her mother and father are buried.

"It is just so insulting, and I'm disgusted by it.

"There should be no room to make this type of mistake," she said.

"After battling with my mum's cancer for the past four years this is just one more thing that we didn't need. It's disrespectful."

Youngest daughter Ann Schofield, of Beeston, added: "At first they were asking us to pay for the headstone to be changed, but then I think they realised what they had done."

Margaret, who had eight children, had been buried next to her husband Vincent, who died in 1997.

The gravestone which should have been put on the plot features inscriptions and pictures of both husband and wife – but instead the gravestone put there was of a different couple.

Bryan Grant, Margaret's son, said: "It's bad enough it's happened to us, but it's also happened to someone else's family and I doubt they even realise."

Ernest Smith, the funeral director responsible for putting up the headstone, has admitted making a mistake and apologised to the family.

Managing director Nigel Lymn Rose said the mistake was down to human error.

He said: "We are incredibly sorry we made this mistake.

"As soon as we heard about the error we were out there and we corrected the headstone within an hour of the complaint being received.

"Even with the best will in the world, mistakes will still happen, but I am not excusing what has happened and questions will be asked.

"We are just very, very sorry this has happened. And I believe our client has accepted our apologies."

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