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Cemetery worker suspended for blunder
Quick ReadThe employee gave the order to exhume the body of a man without notifying his family.
Photo credit: Joel Cairo | At Nicole Pailiere's request a man digs in her son Mallory Pailiere's grave while the body that was mistakenly buried in her son's site is placed into the correct grave site at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale on Thursday. (Nov. 12, 2009)
Uniondale mother realizes another person has been buried with her son in the family plot
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Photos: Burial error in Uniondale
The Hempstead Town employee in charge of Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale has been suspended and will be reassigned for giving the order to exhume the body of a Freeport man who had been buried in the wrong grave - without notifying the man's family, said the town spokesman.
>> PHOTOS: Click here to view photos of the burial error in Uniondale
Also Wednesday, the town admitted that...
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