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My dearest aunt, a second mother to me, passed away of pancreatic cancer on November 23 at the age of 94.
Yesterday, we took my dearest aunt's cremains to the cemetery for burial.
Several employees of that cemetery need to be shown the door. One employee in particular.
A hideous day at the cemetery!
We (my two cousins and I) arrived well before the appointed hour with the alabaster urn holding my aunt's cremains to bury.
Somehow, despite several conversations last week as to how we the family wanted to proceed at graveside (the family plot already holding the cousin I considered a brother, my grandmother after whom I was named, and my aunt's husband who had died suddenly at age 31), the incompetent cemetery representative thought that we were doing a "drop off."
A drop off! I can't believe that those words were actually spoken to us.
And, of course, the grave had not been opened!
The idiot at the cemetery actually considered not letting us bury my aunt yesterday!
We expressed our displeasure -- to say the least. The grave was opened about one hour later. By then, the rain started again -- after a break of nearly two hours.
If the cemetery had done what was supposed to be done, we'd have been able to bury my aunt's cremains without the misery of a cold, cold rain.
We stood at the graveside in the rain and said goodbye to my aunt.
Enough rain fell that the dirt (clay) from the opening of the grave turned into mud. As a result, there wasn't enough to fill in the grave completely. There wasn't even enough mud to cover the vault containing the urn.
Horrible.
My cousins, who had done the driving to the cemetery, and I rode home in silence. We did manage to stop at a restaurant for a bite to eat, but our conversation wasn't uplifting after all we'd been through at that cemetery.
Once I got home, I fell into bed and slept the rest of the day.
I'll never get what happened yesterday out of my mind.
In a few weeks, we'll have to return to the cemetery to see if the marker is in place and properly etched. My aunt chose and paid for that marker a few years ago so that when her inevitable death came the family would have an easier time with her final arrangements. We the family have no faith in the cemetery doing that marker properly either.
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I've Never Seen Such Incompetence!
My dearest aunt, a second mother to me, passed away of pancreatic cancer on November 23 at the age of 94.
Yesterday, we took my dearest aunt's cremains to the cemetery for burial.
Several employees of that cemetery need to be shown the door. One employee in particular.
A hideous day at the cemetery!
We (my two cousins and I) arrived well before the appointed hour with the alabaster urn holding my aunt's cremains to bury.
Somehow, despite several conversations last week as to how we the family wanted to proceed at graveside (the family plot already holding the cousin I considered a brother, my grandmother after whom I was named, and my aunt's husband who had died suddenly at age 31), the incompetent cemetery representative thought that we were doing a "drop off."
A drop off! I can't believe that those words were actually spoken to us.
And, of course, the grave had not been opened!
The idiot at the cemetery actually considered not letting us bury my aunt yesterday!
We expressed our displeasure -- to say the least. The grave was opened about one hour later. By then, the rain started again -- after a break of nearly two hours.
If the cemetery had done what was supposed to be done, we'd have been able to bury my aunt's cremains without the misery of a cold, cold rain.
We stood at the graveside in the rain and said goodbye to my aunt.
Enough rain fell that the dirt (clay) from the opening of the grave turned into mud. As a result, there wasn't enough to fill in the grave completely. There wasn't even enough mud to cover the vault containing the urn.
Horrible.
My cousins, who had done the driving to the cemetery, and I rode home in silence. We did manage to stop at a restaurant for a bite to eat, but our conversation wasn't uplifting after all we'd been through at that cemetery.
Once I got home, I fell into bed and slept the rest of the day.
I'll never get what happened yesterday out of my mind.
In a few weeks, we'll have to return to the cemetery to see if the marker is in place and properly etched. My aunt chose and paid for that marker a few years ago so that when her inevitable death came the family would have an easier time with her final arrangements. We the family have no faith in the cemetery doing that marker properly either.
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