Sylvia was left ‘heartbroken’ at the thought her father had spent more than 40 years ‘thinking not one of us cared about him’.
Sylvia Ross was stunned to be told the grave she believed her dad John was buried in actually held another coffin
Sylvia Ross, 67, buried her father John Thomas Thompson at Witton Park Cemetery in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, back in 1979. But she was given the gut-wrenching news that the plot she has spent so much time at held the coffin of a complete stranger, a man named Frederick Brown.Sylvia’s daughter, Lynette, 42, said: ‘She’s heartbroken as she says her dad has laid there thinking not one of us cared about him, with no flowers and no visits, nothing.’‘I never met my grandad, but my mam has been visiting his grave for 43 years and is utterly devastated.
The error only came to light when Mr Brown’s family contacted Durham County Council about putting a memorial up on their double plot.
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