TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Shawnee County has sent letters to 1,300 customers of a Kansas cemetery informing them that their prepaid burial purchases won't be honored. The burial plans were made at Westlawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Topeka, where the former owner was accused of embezzling money before he died in 2007. The letter from the county said customers' prepaid merchandise and labor wouldn't be honored, but some partial refunds will be offered. Assistant county counselor Shawn Leisinger says the only other option is for county taxpayers to pay the millions of dollars in losses. The Kansas attorney general's office sued owner Michael Graham and Associates in 2005 for not having a trust fund with 110 percent of prepaid sales. The county was named as owner of the cemetery.
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