LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bobby Whobrey had to do one of the most difficult things a son could do- bury his mother.
Whobrey said he purchased a plot nearly twenty years ago. When she passed away in October, he reached out to St. Stephen Cemetery to arrange her burial.
Whobrey said while he was at her visitation, he received a surprising call from the cemetery director, Susan.
He said she told him there were already people buried in his mother’s plot.
"I'm upset," Whobrey said. "I mean there are families out here that don't know what is going on or where their loves ones are at."
After a back and forth with the cemetery, Whobrey buried his mother just feet away from where she wanted to be buried. He had a different plot one row over.
"I don't know who is here," he said, while pointing at the grave where his mother was supposed to go.
According to Whobrey, the cemetery doesn't know who the people are or when they got there.
"They didn't check to see who is here after they dug up the grave," Whobrey said.
Whobrey said he paid $1,400 in October to have his mother buried. But now, he thinks he should get his money back.
"My mom did not get buried in her plot, so where is my money for these plots," Whobrey said.
The grass on his mother’s plots is still growing back after her recent burial. He says she's now buried just feet away from her brother and next to her Granddaughter.
"I had to put her in another place because I didn't know what to do."
Through the pain and heartache of losing his mother, Whobrey has one message for the cemetery director, "I feel like everyone who has a loved one here deserves answers, not just me."
WHAS11 reached out to St. Stephen Cemetery three times for comment.
The director, Susan, said she has no comment.
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