Five years after John M. O’Quinn was interred in a mausoleum in Wimberley, his body was removed and buried in a cemetery in Louisiana, prompting his longtime companion Darla Lexington to file a lawsuit seeking a court order to bring the body back to Texas.

In a petition filed on March 22 in the 127th District Court in Harris County, Lexington, who maintains she was O’Quinn’s wife, also seeks unspecified damages from the defendant, Houston-based Service Corporation International Texas Funeral Services, doing business as Geo. H. Lewis & Sons Funeral Directors.

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