GREENE COUNTY — A Bedford man has changed the locks on a headstone business after he says the shop’s owner failed to make required payments.
The Fennesseys filed a lawsuit on April 3 saying King has not made any payments to them since November 2023.According to the lawsuit, Fennessey and King entered into a “Contract for Sale of Real Estate” in 2014, in which King agreed to purchase the property from the Fennesseys.Customers told WRTV Investigates Kara Kenney the business closed its doors in January with no warning.
WRTV Investigates did some checking and found no business registered with the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office under the name “Austin Memorial Arts.”WRTV talked to many of the families after a March 13 court hearing in Greene County. “It was very unexpected, very sudden,” said Walls. “ claimed to be my dad's friend and respect my dad, and then for him to do this."