A cemetery owner has stepped up to help a family who reached out to KMBC 9 Investigates with questions about the condition of a gravesite.Ken Brown with the Valor Brown Funeral Service has set up a meeting with Mark Ramirez to hear his concerns about Ramirez’s father’s headstone and concerns about weeds growing at the cemetery. Brown took over the former Swan Lake Memorial Gardens and the nearby funeral home last year. Since he took ownership and has converted the cemetery to the Valor Park Memorial Gardens, he has taken multiple calls from families concerned about the previous ownership. Weeds dominated the grounds where multiple veterans are buried. Families have contacted Brown about missing gravesites and headstones. Brown told KMBC he has pitched in thousands of dollars personally to make things right.“We are trying to do the right thing the first time,” Brown said. The cemetery is in a clean-up phase as spring begins. “We're offering truth. The truth is the biggest thing.”Ramirez had called the previous ownership’s number for answers. But he realized he had the wrong number. He said his father’s grave marker is not a double headstone like his family ordered, so his mother could eventually be buried there. He has set up a meeting on Wednesday with Brown to discuss concerns about the gravesite and potential fixes.“From what I saw it sounds like, he’s more than willing to step up and make things right,” Ramirez said. Ramirez said he wishes there was a better way than Brown having to take too much money out of his own pocket to help.“He’s doing the honorable thing by trying to make things right,” Ramirez said.
GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. —
A cemetery owner has stepped up to help a family who reached out to KMBC 9 Investigates with questions about the condition of a gravesite.
Ken Brown with the Valor Brown Funeral Service has set up a meeting with Mark Ramirez to hear his concerns about Ramirez’s father’s headstone and concerns about weeds growing at the cemetery.
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Brown took over the former Swan Lake Memorial Gardens and the nearby funeral home last year.
Since he took ownership and has converted the cemetery to the Valor Park Memorial Gardens, he has taken multiple calls from families concerned about the previous ownership.
Weeds dominated the grounds where multiple veterans are buried. Families have contacted Brown about missing gravesites and headstones.
Brown told KMBC he has pitched in thousands of dollars personally to make things right.
“We are trying to do the right thing the first time,” Brown said. The cemetery is in a clean-up phase as spring begins. “We're offering truth. The truth is the biggest thing.”
Ramirez had called the previous ownership’s number for answers. But he realized he had the wrong number. He said his father’s grave marker is not a double headstone like his family ordered, so his mother could eventually be buried there.
He has set up a meeting on Wednesday with Brown to discuss concerns about the gravesite and potential fixes.
“From what I saw it sounds like, he’s more than willing to step up and make things right,” Ramirez said. Ramirez said he wishes there was a better way than Brown having to take too much money out of his own pocket to help.
“He’s doing the honorable thing by trying to make things right,” Ramirez said.
