Two class action lawsuits were filed last year over the mismanagement of Grandview Memorial Gardens (Madison, Indiana), and a settlement has been reached in the suit involving the cemetery’s preneed trust funds. Over the course of about 14 years, the cemetery went through three changes of ownership, four trustee changes and sold several million dollars
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Grandview Memorial Gardens: Round up the suspects
By Bill Stalter on
The families of those buried at Grandview Memorial Gardens are angry. First they are advised that the trusts meant to fund future burials and the care for those graves are not properly funded. Next, they learn that some of the cemetery’s gardens have a problem with grave spaces flooding with water. When Indiana regulators and…