Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Hubbardston health board approves burial on family land
HUBBARDSTON — A local family will finally be able to bury their 14-year-old son who was killed three months ago in a car accident in Minnesota.
The Board of Health voted last night to grant a temporary tomb permit which will allow Pamela Roper to bury her son Daniel Davis on family land on Partridgeville Road. The family may, in the future, return to the board for a permanent permit, which would require a town meeting vote.
After the temporary permit was approved, Tomas Larson, chairman of the Board of Health, apologized to Paul Flint, Ms. Roper’s husband, for the process taking so long, but said the board had to abide by a legal opinion issued by town counsel. The process was delayed after town counsel expressed concern about burials on private property. Interim Town Administrator Brian Bullock worked with the family and proposed the temporary tomb permit.
Mr. Flint said last night that when the burial will take place will depend on the weather. With heavy rain expected and a possibility of snow on Saturday, he said the family would wait to see how the weekend weather develops.
— George Barnes
The Board of Health voted last night to grant a temporary tomb permit which will allow Pamela Roper to bury her son Daniel Davis on family land on Partridgeville Road. The family may, in the future, return to the board for a permanent permit, which would require a town meeting vote.
After the temporary permit was approved, Tomas Larson, chairman of the Board of Health, apologized to Paul Flint, Ms. Roper’s husband, for the process taking so long, but said the board had to abide by a legal opinion issued by town counsel. The process was delayed after town counsel expressed concern about burials on private property. Interim Town Administrator Brian Bullock worked with the family and proposed the temporary tomb permit.
Mr. Flint said last night that when the burial will take place will depend on the weather. With heavy rain expected and a possibility of snow on Saturday, he said the family would wait to see how the weekend weather develops.
— George Barnes
1 comment:
Don't you just love that the permit is temporary? How temporary can burial be? What are they going to do, make us dig Daniel up again at some future time?
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