GUILTY AL - Winchester Hagans, chg'd w/criminal littering for flowers @ fiance's grave, Auburn, Jan 2022

[YaYa_521]

Man arrested for leaving flowers at fiancé’s grave
9 Feb 2022

• Winchester Hagans lost his fiancé, Hannah Ford, in a car crash in January 2021.
• built a flower box filled with her favorite flowers and decorated it with pictures of the two of them to put by her grave.
• Hannah’s father, Tom Ford, signed an arrest warrant to charge Hagans with littering.

Trial date set for Alabama man arrested for placing flowers at fiancee’s grave | KGET 17
16 Feb 2022
A March trial date is set for the east Alabama man arrested and charged with criminal littering after placing flowers at his fiancee’s grave in Auburn. Hannah Ford was killed in a car crash the same day she picked out a wedding venue with her soon-to-be husband, Winchester Hagans.

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Hagans says the couple had a strained relationship with some members of Ford’s family, and someone kept throwing the flowers away. Hagans kept rebuilding the box and putting the flowers back. Hagans says Ford’s family never told him directly to stay away from his fiancee’s grave and stop leaving flowers.

#more at link

 

[YaYa_521]

Just engaged, Hannah Ford dies in crash after visit to wedding venue
19 Jan 2021

Hannah Ford Obituary - Montgomery, AL

 

[YaYa_521]

Winchester is a preacher and has authored a book titled LUX: a story of finding light in the dark night of the soul.

https://www.achosensinner.com/

 

[Tower]

Man arrested for leaving flowers at fiancé’s grave
9 Feb 2022

• Winchester Hagans lost his fiancé, Hannah Ford, in a car crash in January 2021.
• built a flower box filled with her favorite flowers and decorated it with pictures of the two of them to put by her grave.
• Hannah’s father, Tom Ford, signed an arrest warrant to charge Hagans with littering.

Trial date set for Alabama man arrested for placing flowers at fiancee’s grave | KGET 17
16 Feb 2022
A March trial date is set for the east Alabama man arrested and charged with criminal littering after placing flowers at his fiancee’s grave in Auburn. Hannah Ford was killed in a car crash the same day she picked out a wedding venue with her soon-to-be husband, Winchester Hagans.

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Hagans says the couple had a strained relationship with some members of Ford’s family, and someone kept throwing the flowers away. Hagans kept rebuilding the box and putting the flowers back. Hagans says Ford’s family never told him directly to stay away from his fiancee’s grave and stop leaving flowers.

#more at link

The father is insane, in my opinion. I don’t care how much he’s grieving, his daughter chose this man and her fiancé is showing his undying love. How can you let your hate overshadow the feelings your daughter had in life? Just petty and awful. Imo. Maybe there’s more to it, but tell him not to visit her grave, don’t passively-aggressively destroy the flower box and have the man arrested.

 

[Tower]

Winchester is a preacher and has authored a book titled LUX: a story of finding light in the dark night of the soul.

https://www.achosensinner.com/

His most recent blog post makes all of this mess a lot more clear, in my opinion. He talks about how Hannah believed she committed an unforgivable sin that she confessed to her father, who treated her with law instead of gospel. As a Christian, I understand this to mean, he judged her instead of forgiving her. My own interpretation.

 

[Trinitee]

I am sorry but that is petty. Someone needs to start acting like an adult.

 

[MajorHoople]

There is another thing to consider and that's the rules in effect at the cemetery. Many of the newer cemeteries don't allow upright markers. They require flat markers. This is done for the ease of mowing the grass.

The cemetery my grandparents are buried in have this policy for the newer sections. If you are there on mowing day you can see the difference. It takes a lot of guys with weed whackers to do the job on the older sections with upright headstones and family markers. On the new sections they cut the grass quickly and efficiently with large and fast mowers by cutting right over the markers.

The photo provided by YaYa_521 seems to show this. There are no upright markers anywhere in the foreground. There might be some in the distance. It's hard to tell.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I think some compassion, rather than criminal charges, are in order here.

 

[YaYa_521]

Alabama man who placed flower boxes at fiancee’s grave found guilty of littering
11 Jun 2022
SBM

Winston “Winchester” Hagans, 31, appeared in Auburn Municipal Court to face misdemeanor charges after a complaint signed by the Rev. Tom Ford, the father of Hannah Ford,... [snip] Hagans was found guilty of one count of criminal littering and was fined $50 plus $251 in court costs,...[snip] Judge Jim McLaughlin also suspended a 30-day jail sentence, which will remain suspended as long as Hagans does not place any more boxes on the grave, according to the newspaper.

After the ruling, Hagans’ defense attorney, Jeff Tickal, gave a verbal notice of appeal, the News reported. He plans to file a written appeal before the 14-day deadline, according to the newspaper. If the appeal is granted, the case will go to the Lee County Circuit Court for a new trial and the initial fine and court costs will be dropped.

#more at link

 

[killarney rose]

This is semi local to me, so I have been keeping up with it in news articles. Argument with her dad aside, the rules at the cemetery forbid memorials other than the markers that staff can mow over. If the fiancé wasn’t getting into it with her dad, he would be into it with the cemetery owners. He is in clear violation of their rules.

dad and fiancé need to stop this ridiculous arguing and fiancé needs to find a better way to honor his deceased fiancé.

 

[Vern]

This is semi local to me, so I have been keeping up with it in news articles. Argument with her dad aside, the rules at the cemetery forbid memorials other than the markers that staff can mow over. If the fiancé wasn’t getting into it with her dad, he would be into it with the cemetery owners. He is in clear violation of their rules.

dad and fiancé need to stop this ridiculous arguing and fiancé needs to find a better way to honor his deceased fiancé.

And yet cleary in the photo shown above, there are a lot more graves that also have flowers albeit in urns, but urns of flowers that cannot simply be "mowed over". Seems to me the cemetary is picking and choosing who it wants to fight with as well.

Does the cemetary owner attend her dad's church perchance?

 

[killarney rose]

And yet cleary in the photo shown above, there are a lot more graves that also have flowers albeit in urns, but urns of flowers that cannot simply be "mowed over". Seems to me the cemetary is picking and choosing who it wants to fight with as well.

Does the cemetary owner attend her dad's church perchance?

They have a way of mowing with the flowers in place. I think they mow around them. The urns fasten into the center of the flat markers. Our local cemetery had this same set up and that is how it is done there.

 

[Vern]

They have a way of mowing with the flowers in place. I think they mow around them. The urns fasten into the center of the flat markers. Our local cemetery had this same set up and that is how it is done there.

Hmmmm; they mow around them. Seems simple enough doesn't it. Why choose not to mow around this then?

 

[killarney rose]

Hmmmm; they mow around them. Seems simple enough doesn't it. Why choose not to mow around this then?

It isn’t that simple. The main reason being, the way the vases are attached to the markers requires no trimming with a weed eater. The mower is run over the makers. With the box, grass still grows up against the box and requires trimming.

also, if they bend the rules for this guy, everyone else will expect them to be bent for them as well. Sure, he loved his fiancé and her death was a tragedy. But most everyone that is laid to rest in that cemetery has loved ones that are grieving for them. He’s the rule, not an exception. There are other ways he can honor and memorialize his fiancé other than an unsightly box.

 

[JerseyGirl]

I was fined and given jail sentence for putting flowers on my fiancée’s grave

A MAN has been fined and handed a jail sentence for putting flowers on his fiancée’s grave. Winston “Winchester” Hagans was convicted of littering on June 9 after repeatedly laying plan…

www.the-sun.com

He was handed a 30-day jail sentence that’s suspended on the condition that he doesn’t put any more flowers at the grave.

He was also given a $50 fine and $251 in court costs.

 

[sds71]

Father refusing to return late daughter’s engagement ring

An Alabama man, in a legal battle over littering because he left flowers on his fiancée’s grave, says he also can’t get his engagement ring back.

whnt.com