Headstone finally delivered after 7 On Your Side gets involved

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Friday, June 20, 2014
Widow waits for management company to deliver husband's gravestone
Nina Pineda has 7 on your Side.

GARFIELD, N.J. (WABC) -- In a row of stately monuments this is the little cross one grieving family has had to bear for more than a year and a half.[br /][br /]"I'm sad we don't have closure we are still fighting and can't mourn the loss of my father," said Jessica Gerdak.[br /][br /]Her dad, Winfred Siber, father of 3, grandfather of 6, passed away after a brief battle with bone cancer in December of 2012. Ever since his widow had been waiting for the gravestone to be installed.[br /][br /]"He's taking advantage of people," said Gertrude Siber.[br /][br /]She's talking about Anthony Imbruglia, she paid him $1,700 last Spring to make the memorial and says he promised to deliver it by mid July. [br /][br /]"I called him up he doesn't answer the phone. he won't answer the phone," adds Siber.[br /][br /]It wasn't until last December that she even got to see the engraving. It was then she said she gave him another $1,000.[br /][br /]Now paid $2,700, she says Imbruglia made another promise he wound up breaking.[br /][br /]"I said we are coming up Palm Sunday he said 'oh yeah, Palm Sunday it will be there' so we came Palm Sunday it wasn't here," Gertrude adds.[br /][br /]Furious she called him up.[br /][br /]Gertrude: "I said where's my stone he said in the cemetery he said it was here." But it wasn't.[br /][br /]That call was in April, and by June it still wasn't there.[br /][br /]Nina Pineda and 7 On Your Side stopped by to visit this man.[br /]Nina: "We were just at the cemetery with Mrs. Siber she's crying." [br /][br /]Anthony Imbruglia: "It will be up tomorrow, I have no excuse I just dropped the ball."[br /]OUTCUE: ...[br /]AT: 19:02[br /]TO: 0:00[br /]DURATION:0:10][br /][br /]By the very next afternoon, the headstone was there.[br /][br /]"He was always watching Channel 7. I don't know how I could ever repay you," adds Gertrude.[br /][br /]After apologizing, Mr. Imbruglia even gave her a $200 discount.[br /]