New Details: State Investigates Cleveland Mausoleum
1,693 views · Published 27 July 2012 · 1:55 · Indexed 20 October 2026
Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics
State investigators are investigating the mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Gardens, following reports of body fluids leaking inside a crypt and onto the floor.The parent company, Cecil Lawrence, Inc., confirms body fluids were leaking on the floor of the mausoleum.The leak was discovered on Monday.A state inspector went to the building the following day and determined it was a public health and safety issue.The state didn't shut the business down, but suggested no one be allowed inside of the mausoleum.Sunset followed that suggestion and crews are working right now to replace carpet. Ralph Buckner, Junior, who is in the funeral home business, filed the initial complaint, to the Executive Director of the Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, Robert Gribble. Buckner, who had formerly served on the same board, described a powerful odor and body fluids seeping from a tomb in the main mausoleum and spilling onto the carpeted floors below. In a letter to Gribble, Cecil Lawrence wrote, "The reason for the leak was the crypt was sealed with plywood
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