Linda Garza is filled with a mix of emotions as she looks at the tomb where her mother's body is interred.

She and her brothers – George and Jim – buried their parents 14 years ago at the Restlawn Cemetery in Avondale.

But they were all stunned recently when they expected to have the coffins of their parents moved into the same tomb.

They say the casket that workers had placed in a tomb they believed to hold their father’s remains, was clearly not the one in which he was interred.

“My father’s casket was gray, not blue," said George. “And my father’s casket did not have prayer hands on it, which this one did.”

“I’m hurt,” said Linda. “I’m just frustrated with it. I can’t believe this is happening.”

The Garzas say the workers refused to bring the casket they claimed was their fathers down to ground level so the family could examine it closely, even though they were allowed to inspect their mother's coffin.   

“Those were not on my father’s coffin,” said George about the religious hand prints on the casket’s side. “My father was not a religious person.”

The Garzas say they feel deceived by a cemetery and mausoleum they have trusted over the years with their grandparents, another brother and their parents. 

“They clearly tried to stage something that would be my father there and then my mother would be with him and we would never know any different,” contended George.

“Everybody’s devastated,” added Linda. “That’s their grandparents. It’s just a horrible situation.”

The Garzas said their parents had been together through most of their adult lives and they wanted to be together in death. They said they had promised their parents they would make sure that happened.

“Right now, I don’t even know where my father is,” said Linda. “We all want to know where my father is.”

Eyewitness News went to the cemetery's Gretna office to get the other side, to find out how the operators of this cemetery respond.

When reached by phone, the owner, Betty Chedotal said she wouldn’t have anything to say, per her lawyer’s instructions.

The Garza's attorney says he's going to file a complaint with the state cemetery board and he says the cemetery operators have some explaining to do.