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New town cemetery policy prevents burial in wrong grave
Quick ReadThe cemetery staff has revised the policy to allow either a family member of the deceased or a funeral director to sign an affidavit.
Photo credit: Newsday/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 sons site is placed into the correct gravesite at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale. (November 12, 2009)
Uniondale mother realizes another person has been buried with her son in the family plot
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The staff of the cemetery operated by the Town of Hempstead, after learning of the second burial in the wrong grave within a year, took steps last winter to prevent such mistakes by asking funeral directors to sign an affidavit designating the location of the grave.
But Monday, after the Nassau-Suffolk Funeral Directors Association responded by advising its 400 members not to sign, cemetery...
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