Widow: Husband's reburial like "robbing someone's grave"
Quick ReadEd Toppin was buried Nov. 7 in a grave that already had a body. The spot in the double-depth grave was reserved for the other man's mother; Toppin was supposed to be buried nearby with his own mother.
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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Convulsive sobbing and fury came over a Freeport widow when she learned - from a reporter - that her recently buried husband of 44 years had been placed in the wrong plot, exhumed, then reburied - all without her knowledge.
"Oh, my God," Dorothy Toppin wept late Friday night. "Oh, my Jesus."
"I never heard of such a thing," she said later. "That's like robbing someone's grave."
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