Brad Fitzsimmons, the boy's father, said that the family was involved in a dispute with officials at the cemetery over the number of images on the boy's headstone.
Many of Fitzsimmons' relatives are also buried in the Village of NorthHampton's Myers Cemetery. Dinosaurs, turtles,robots and other things that captured the mind of a child are some of the pictures on his headstone.
There is a photo of a smiling Barrett in his school jersey and another of him with his arms outstretched. Fitzsimmons said his son was always smiling and laughing.
He said that they were not trying to idolize their child. We want to remember him. We wanted to respect everyone.
The Fitzsimmons were found to have violated two of the three private cemetery's rules. The Fitzsimmons failed to contact the cemetery's trustees prior to ordering their son's headstone, as they are required to do, he said.
Miller wrote in an email that trustees felt the design would be out of place in the cemetery, which was founded in 1860 on a farm belonging to German Baptists.
A T-rex dinosaur carved out of a sheet of metal is currently at the grave site. It's a nod to the boy's fascination with prehistoric animals. There is a sign for the Barrett Strong Foundation, which is focused on raising awareness of children's cancer.
The Fitzsimmons family's lawyer plans to file a lawsuit at the beginning of the year in hopes of resolving the dispute over the headstone, he said.
The headstone is a marker for both Brad Fitzsimmons and his wife, Lana's, grave plots. When they visit their son's grave, they put a bench in the design of the headstone.
The cemetery board approved the size of the headstone and took payment from the monument company to create the footer. The footer was paid for by the Fitzsimmons family.
The family attended the board's yearly meeting in June and asked for a vote on the design after the cemetery rejected it because of the number of images.
Fitzsimmons said that the design was approved by a vote of 17 to 4.
The board told the family that the vote was null because non-members were voting, and thus the headstone was not approved.
Fitzsimmons said his family requested a copy of the minutes from the meeting, which shows the board's vote as 14 to 4, but the measure on the headstone design does not have a majority vote needed.
The cemetery is owned by the trustees and their successors, as well as the Association, according to a letter from the German Baptist Brethren Church that the family's legal counsel provided.
We don't have the authority to make decisions for the cemetery.
The Fitzsimmons' legal counsel gave the News-Sun a copy of the letter the board sent to the monument company.
The rules and regulations for the cemetery are described in a letter, and footers can be made and placed on graves beginning in April and ending in October.
The letter states that there has been no approval for the monument from the trustees.
Fitzsimmons said that his family has paid for a concrete footer that hasn't been poured, and that the family continues to pay storage fees for the headstone.
Fitzsimmons said that people who knew him want to grieve his death.
He remembered the day of the funeral. He said that North Hampton looked like a large city with streets lined with people.
The boy's father said thatBarrett meant a lot to everyone.
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