Son’s colourful memorial missed by grieving family

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With traditional memorial burials, a memorial garden for ashes, family ashes beam and a commemorative stillborn area and an RSA section, the cemetery is important to the people of Marlborough.

Jenny says her son had chosen the cemetery as his final resting place. A native cabbage tree marks the spot he has been laid to rest.

Posting about the missing memorial on social media, Jenny received a raft of comments calling for the return of the treasured bird bath.

“It just goes to show that there are some scum out there and it’s disappointing to say the least that someone has stooped this low,” she says. The unique piece includes a ceramic red heart given to her by a friend when Daniel died.

“He liked orange, so I used lots of that colour. I do mosaics, it’s what I do and I wanted to make it so we had something there to remember him by, a way to mark his birthday.

“It was what Daniel wanted, to be near the native garden.

“The bird bath has huge sentimental value to us and we’d love it back. If anyone has any information, even if it’s been dumped somewhere, we would like to know.

“It would mean so much to us.”

Marlborough District Council own and operate Fairhall, which is Marlborough’s main cemetery.

Jenny says she contacted council staff to check they hadn’t removed it.

‘They didn’t remove it and have been very supportive she says. “I contacted the police too.”

A Marlborough District Council spokesperson has been approached for comment.

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