Family: Webster cemetery rule rarely enforced leads to heartbreak

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Tom and Bryan Truong will never be forgotten. You can see their family's love in their grave sites -- both filled with personal mementos.

"Something that might not be a value to them, but it's of value to somebody else in their heart and in their soul," said Ruby Truong, who is Tom's daughter and Bryan's sister.

Ruby Troung goes to the Forest Park East Cemetery in Webster every week, but this week, she found many of her memorial items gone. The cemetery had cleaned up.

Forest Park East says it warned grieving families about the clean-up, even putting up a sign at the cemetery. In fact, families there even signed paperwork, agreeing to specific memorial rules.

But, Troung says, the cemetery has never enforced the rules before. Now she and others are left reliving their pain.

"I hope nobody has to go through a pile of sorrow to find their things," she said.

Here is the full statement from Forest Park East: