Grandmother waits over 7 months for gravesite marker
ENFIELD, N.C. (WTVD) -- A grieving grandmother is frustrated after a long wait over a memorial marker at a gravesite.
Tanesha Battle already suffered a great loss, her 11 month-old grandson died suddenly. They buried him last September, and months later there was still no marker at his gravesite.
Only flowers and a care bear marked where little A'Marion Fox was laid to rest.
"Right now it's just looking like some dirt there," Tanesha said.
Tanesha says she's still dealing with the unexpected devastating loss of the 11 month-old, but it makes it even harder not to see the memorial marker on his grave.
She says it was ordered right after A'Marion passed in September, but when she went to the cemetery in April, there was still nothing. So she went to Clark Funeral Home in Enfield.
"He got on the phone and he was ordering it for the first time, and he said it would be here in about a week, so I waited," Tanesha said.
She explained, "I went back again; it was right before Easter that he said it would be here, Easter weekend."
She waited, but still no marker.
"It is very frustrating. I think it is unfair because the services were paid for and I feel like if we paid for the services then we should get the whole service." Tanesha said.
Tanesha turned to me, and I called Clark Funeral Home several times, but there was no response. I stopped by the funeral home in Enfield, but there was no sign of the owner. However, several residents offered to help and one man even got the owner on the phone.
The owner, Sherrod Clark, said that the marker was in and told me to go on the porch of the funeral home and look in the window. I saw the marker was sitting in the corner.
When I questioned why the marker wasn't at A'Marion's grave, Clark said the marker had been in and ready for placement and that he'd just been waiting on the family to approve it.
The owner of Clark Funeral Home added that part of the delay was because the first time the marker was done, there was an incorrect date on it. He says because of the troubles, when he made it a second time, he upgraded it to granite.
He said he would be back in the office and have the marker installed that evening. He followed through and little A'Marion's grave now has his marker on it.
Grandma Tanesha says it brings her some peace during this difficult loss.
"It's still hard. I still have a long way to go, but at least we'll know that's his grave when we come out to visit," she said.
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