After three long months, Sidney Cooper's decades-old remains are still missing.
One day before Mrs. Cooper’s funeral, one of her three daughters, Lana Cooper-Jones, got a phone call from Greenwood Memorial Park.
“They told me they opened the gravesite and told me my father was not there. I was absolutely devastated,” she told NBC 7, adding, “They asked me, did I want to hold my mother’s body until they located my father.” “They told us in the beginning that they knew where he was but he was in another family’s plot and they would need to talk to the family before they could dig him up,” said another sister, Shelley Cooper-Ashford. Family members like cousin Amani Miller told NBC 7 they got the runaround.
That was when the Cooper children decided to hire an attorney. A civil lawsuit was filed in San Diego County Superior Court on Friday. It claims, among other things, that Greenwood Memorial Park was negligent, and that it intentionally inflicted emotional distress on the Cooper family.
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