Funeral company accused of mishandling Georgia family's cemetery plot

LAWRENCEVILLE - A woman who learned hours before her husband&#39;s funeral that his plot was already occupied is suing a Texas funeral services company that has been accused of burying people in the wrong place before. <br> <br> In her lawsuit, Betty Mae White of Loganville says officials at Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Tucker informed her several hours before her husband&#39;s October 26, 2000 funeral that she&#39;d have to select a new plot for him. <br> <br> According to the suit, the funeral home, owned by Houston-based Service Corporation International, had buried a woman who died in 1996 in the plot Henry and Betty White purchased in 1982. <br> <br> An SCI spokesman, Terry Hemeyer, called the situation regrettable. <br> <br> She says they made a mistake and regret that it happened, adding it was an isolated situation and that they tried to make the family happy and offered a more desirable situation. <br> <br> Officials in Florida sued the company earlier this month, accusing it of selling fake plots at two South Florida cemeteries and of mishandling remains. That investigation began after relatives of people buried at the cemeteries filed suits last year seeking class-action status. <br> <br> White filed her suit March 12 in Gwinnett County Superior Court along with the couple&#39;s four children, seeking the deed to Henry White&#39;s current plot. The suit also seeks class-action status and unspecified damages.