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Grave Desecration

In a complaint for emotional distress and grave desecration, a man claims the Greenwood Cemetery Association of Wayne, Nebraska, and Schumacher-Hasemann Funeral Homes left his mother in an uncovered grave for five days, telling him he “should have picked a different day to bury his mother because there was a Nebraska Husker football game.”

WAYNE, Neb. — In a complaint for emotional distress and grave desecration, a man claims the Greenwood Cemetery Association of Wayne, Nebraska, and Schumacher-Hasemann Funeral Homes left his mother in an uncovered grave for five days, telling him he “should have picked a different day to bury his mother because there was a Nebraska Husker football game.”

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