A PENSIONER is demanding a grave be moved after claiming someone has been buried over her grandparents.
Diana Cooper, 77, said she wants to be able to lay flowers and speak to Wilfred and Ethel Cooper like she says she has done for the past 57 years.
She travelled four hours from her home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, to Berwick St John’s Church in Shaftesbury, Devon, in October and alleged a row of headstones were over where her grandparents are.
Diana said their grave did not have a headstone because it was too expensive, but she had been saving to put one in.
The retired NHS worker told The Sun: “I just couldn’t believe it. I collapsed and was sobbing my heart out. It’s just not on.
“I would go and lay flowers and talk to them but I can’t do that anymore.
“When they got married they got married in that church. All the children were baptised in that church. My mother got married there and so did I.
“It’s got lots of happy memories. It’s all completely broken and nobody wants to do anything.
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"I would like for the person buried on top of my grandparents to be moved somewhere else. But that won't happen will it.
"I am heartbroken over this. It's upset me more because I always look on Berwick St John as my forever home."
But in a bizarre twist, the church said it has no official record of her grandparents' grave ever being there.
Wilfred, who died aged 78 in 1971, bought the plot after Ethel passed away aged 66 in 1965 so that he could be buried with her. They had been married since 1920.
The church suggested her grandparents were buried in the row above the other headstones.
But Diana insisted those plots belonged to her great grandmother Anne and her two sons.
She was also offered a stone somewhere else in the graveyard to lay flowers, but she said: "I don't want a stone. They won't be there under it."
A spokesperson for Berwick St John's Church said: "Extensive searches of both parish and country records have not resulted in any evidence of the location of the burials of Ethel and Wilfred Cooper in the graveyard of Berwick St John.
"These are the official records of burials in all English churches.
"The parish have worked with Mrs Cooper on trying to understand more about the circumstances of her grandparents last resting place.
"We share her disappointment that the official records do nothing to clarify the issue.
"The parish is sorry that Mrs Copper is disappointed and hurt and have suggested that a memorial stone commemorating the lives of the grandparents be placed at the foot of the plot identified by her.
"We wish to continue work with Mrs Cooper to find a way to honour her grandparents."
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