Stolen! Right off his stone!

[hobish]

Is it possible that it will turn up in the spring once the snow melts?  Maybe it did get moved when the snow was cleared.  You said id looks more or less like ice, so I'm guessing it could easily get lost in the snow......

ETA: I'm very sorry for your loss.  I would prefer to believe that someone wouldn't steal something like this and truly hope is is like the situation I've described above.

I was hoping the same ... maybe it is lost, not stolen. One can hope. I am very sorry Mom2Brett, if it was stolen that is despicable.

[Gambitgirl]

i really cannot imagine how pathetic, depraved, and evil someone must be to steal something from a gravesite!

i'm so sorry for what happened...just know that whoever unspeakable person did this will get their come-uppance. either through karm in this world or getting an extra crispy sunburn in the hot place.

mean people suck!!! 

[Mom to 2 Angels]

I left work early yesterday and drove to the cemetery.  I walked around for 3 hours, until it got too dark that I couldn't see, and didn't find it.  I am not going to get any more upset right now.  I'm hoping that it was just moved accidentally or something and I'll find it when the snow melts.  Then I'm having the cemetery anchor it to the stone.  The groundskeeper said he could do that for us. 

Thank you all for your kind words.  It means a lot to me!

[jaxsue]

Please add my sympathy as well.  Someone stole my parents' grave markers this Spring (to resell for the brass) and it's just like being personally attacked.  The level of disrespect this shows against you and against your son is appalling.

Will the cemetery replace this?--it might be covered by their insurance.

I'm so, so sorry.

I have no words to describe what I think about people who do this. Locally (NY/NJ), there have been a lot of thefts of brass plates from graves. People resell the metal, of course. Some of them might be druggies looking for quick cash.

If I caught someone taking anything from a gravesite I'd go ballistic!

[andrea007]

I too lost my child.

Designing and placing a headstone was the absolute hardest thing I had to do after the funeral itself.
Placing a memorial on a child's grave is the final parental act of a grieving parent, to take care of their child.

Unfortunately grave robbers are very very common, I read about them all the time from grieving parents.

I am so sorry. If it is any comfort perhaps the person who stole it was too poor to give a final gift to their own child.
(((Hugs)))

[Nannerdoman]

Please add my sympathy as well.  Someone stole my parents' grave markers this Spring (to resell for the brass) and it's just like being personally attacked.  The level of disrespect this shows against you and against your son is appalling.

Will the cemetery replace this?--it might be covered by their insurance.

I'm so, so sorry.

I have no words to describe what I think about people who do this. Locally (NY/NJ), there have been a lot of thefts of brass plates from graves. People resell the metal, of course. Some of them might be druggies looking for quick cash.

That's what the police thought was the case at our memorial park, where about 40 families' sites were hit.

There was one guy back East who was caught with a bagful of brass markers from a military cemetery.  He was charged with one count per marker of theft, theft of a "venerated object", and flag desecration since each marker had a flag on it.  Now and again, Karma bites good.

[hassie]

I'm sorry you have had to go through this.  What a callous thing to do.

[Uf]

my mums brother died in the 1940's (before my mum was born). My grandparents couldn't afford a headstone, so the neighbours clubbed together and bought a flower holder with 'Peter - Our Friend' on it. well.. it got stolen in the late 80's.
While I was wondering around the cemetry a couple of years back with my mum, we noticed the flower holder on another very overgrown grave. We think what must have happened, is it got moved (by accident?) and some person found it and put it on the closest grave. It had been there all these years, but we were just looking in the wrong places.

I really hope that is what has happened to your marker.
If it has been stolen, then the people that stole it have NO respect for themselves or others.

[Cyndi]

I'm sure karma will bite that jerk's Ooo, I tried to get around the word filter with a nasty word..