The lawsuit filed Friday seeks to force the cemetery to find the patriarch’s remains and compensate the children for damages.
Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains were reported missing from the family’s burial plot.
Greenwood Memorial Park and Mortuary informed the family that Sidney Cooper’s body and casket were not in the plot where he was supposed to have been buried more than two decades ago. Cemetery staff discovered it was empty as they prepared to bury Cooper’s wife, Thelma, who died in March.
Staff said they did not know the whereabouts of Cooper’s remains, their daughter, Lana Cooper-Jones, told the today!
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