HOUSTON – A Houston woman says a mistake on her family’s headstone has spiraled into a years-long fight, one that now has her questioning whether her loved ones are even buried where the cemetery claims they are.

Sabrina Norman has spent the last three years trying to correct the family headstone at Golden Gate Cemetery in north Houston. But instead of answers, she says she’s only found confusion, frustration, and fear.

Norman says the issue came to light in 2022, shortly after her mother died. When she visited the family plot, something didn’t look right. The names and order of family members engraved on the headstone didn’t match the original records her grandparents paid for decades ago.

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