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Post by Graveyardbride on Apr 1, 2015 23:55:42 GMT -5
Man Decorating Grave Crushed by TombstoneTHROOP, Penn. – An elderly man visiting his mother-in-law’s grave was killed by her tumbling headstone Monday. Stephen Woytack, 74, was fatally crushed at St. Joseph Cemetery while adorning the grave for Easter. He and his wife, Lucy Woytack, were kneeling on opposite sides of the grave, tying a cross to the tombstone. “It happened so quickly,” Mrs. Woytack told the Times-Tribune.
Woytack used to visit the cemetery with his wife annually and was known to the caretaker staff. “Usually, I come down and talk to them right away; [but] I went around the other end to start picking up the Christmas ornaments, and [his wife] came running up, ‘Help me, the stone fell on Stephen,’” said cemetery caretaker Ed Kubilus.
Headstones are known to occasionally shift in springtime because of the seasonal thaw and dampness of the ground. “It is unimaginable to think that a visit of a faithful couple to the grave of loved ones in anticipation of the celebration of Easter could have ended in such a tragic manner,” said Bishop Joseph Bambera. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the deceased and his family.”
Woytack will be buried near his mother-in-law, not far from where the headstone struck him down.
Source: Sabrina Toppa, Time, Inc., March 31, 2015.
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Post by Kate on Apr 2, 2015 10:06:00 GMT -5
A lot of women would like to kill their son-in-laws.
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Post by natalie on Apr 6, 2015 12:23:25 GMT -5
Karma?
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