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Cemetery put mom’s headstone on the wrong plot: Lawsuit

Forest Lawn cemetery sued for putting a woman

Background: Forest Lawn Mortuary in Los Angeles, Calif. (Google Maps). Inset: News footage of a member of the Demirchyan family at their mother’s grave (KTLA).

A California family is suing a well-known cemetery after claiming that their loved one’s headstone was placed on the wrong grave — and they only found out about it after another relative died.

The Demirchyans buried their family patriarch beside his late wife in April at the Hollywood Hills location of the famous Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles. But after the burial was over, the son of the deceased said a mortician pulled him aside to inform him that his mother — who died in August 2021 — was not buried in the plot bearing her grave marker. According to a lawsuit, which was obtained by local Nextar station KTLA, the man’s mother was buried in the plot next to her grave marker.

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Chris Demirchyan, whose age was not provided, spoke to several local news outlets about his family’s lawsuit against Forest Lawn Mortuary, and had a similar story for each of them. He told KTLA, “I feel betrayed because we have been speaking to an empty plot.”

According to the lawsuit, his mother, Hasmik Demirchyan, was buried in “space 2,” but her grave marker was placed on “space 1.”

Chris Demirchyan told KTLA, “All those times we put down flowers, we prayed, we came for holidays, we even put up a decorated Christmas tree — it was the wrong space.” He similarly told local NBC affiliate KNBC, “For a year, I was there every weekend, taking her flowers, and sitting and talking to her.”

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