New IL legislation proposal aimed at reforming how medical examiners ID bodies, notify family<\/a><\/p>\n“I almost passed out. I was done. I was totally done. It was just a shocker to me. I couldn’t figure out why was it missing?” Price Jennings said.<\/p>\n
She says she didn’t know about the cemetery’s requirements. And the cemetery told the I-Team that it’s the funeral home’s responsibility to know the rules and that “any vendor such as funeral home, monument company, etc. should always double check with the cemetery’s rules and regulations.”<\/p>\n
Price Jennings also believes the funeral home is responsible, sharing a cemetery headstone form, signed by the funeral home. The cemetery wrote “bronze only” on the form but somehow “granite” was still checked in a box. In an email, the funeral home blamed Price Jennings, saying she told them she would provide documentation from the cemetery approving granite.<\/p>\n
But the cemetery says it is still the funeral home’s responsibility to verify.<\/p>\n
Fountain Jordan Shepard Funeral Home also said it’s committed to customer satisfaction and it “has proactively extended multiple good-faith offers to Mrs. Jennings. These proposals have included various alternative solutions aimed at achieving a satisfactory outcome that aligns with cemetery regulations. Regrettably, each of these constructive proposals has been consistently declined by Mrs. Jennings.”<\/p>\n
Price Jennings says she never declined an offer.<\/p>\n
“Just give me some justice for my mom. That’s all I want,” Price Jennings said.<\/p>\n
The funeral home also told the I-Team on the phone it would replace the headstone as a “courtesy,” but that hasn’t yet been done.<\/p>\n
The funeral home did not comment further on the cemetery’s policy, saying that funeral homes must directly work with them.<\/p>\n
When picking out a headstone, make sure to know the rules and regulations and that all the parties are communicating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ABC7 Chicago I-Team is investigating why a cemetery took a headstone away from a grave. After a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":635593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[159727,960,270825,5386,1818,270824],"class_list":["post-635592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-abc7-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-earlene-price-jennings","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-price-jennings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116180523777184710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}