A Queens widow has won a three-year court battle with her in-laws and will be allowed to dig up her husband's remains so she can be buried with him when she dies. Debra Eirand-Herskowitz's husband, Jamie, died of a heart attack in 2007. At the time, Eirand-Herkowitz was reportedly too upset to argue over his family's decision to bury him in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale. It was only later she realized that as a non-Jew, she wouldn't be allowed to be buried there. Upon hearing the judge rule in her favor, she said, "I feel absolutely wonderful."
Though her husband never wrote down how he wanted to be buried, the couple spoke about it a week before his death and agreed they wanted to be buried together in a non-denominational cemetery. She also said she never wanted to go to court, but felt she was "deceived by his mother and sister." She met her husband, who was the head of food and merchandising services at Yankee Stadium, in 1988 and got a job at the Stadium soon after he died. "My whole world still revolves around him."
