Grieving Family Spot a Decaying FOOT Lying atop Their Grandfather’s Casket in New Jersey Cemetery

Cleveland Butler, 85, died after suffering from a stroke while in a Brooklyn nursing home. Grieving members of his family gathered to celebrate his life and mourn his loss at a New Jersey cemetery. As Butler’s vibrantly colored casket was lowered into the ground, family members noticed a decaying foot jutting out from the adjacent grave site. Workers chose to ignore the decaying neighbor’s limb and continued with the burial.

James Shmergel, owner of Mount Holiness Cemetery, and Bill Plog, the cemetery’s caretaker, shrugged off the incident as being par for the course for the cemetery. Plog noted that the “grave is from 1969. It’s unfortunate that this happened, but this is a graveyard,”

The family is currently considering pursuing legal action.

See Grieving Family Spot a Decaying FOOT Lying atop Their Grandfather’s Casket in New Jersey Cemetery, Daily Mail.com, August 11, 2017.