Widow: I’m bury happy
A retired NYPD officer has won a years-long court case allowing her to exhume her husband’s remains so that they can be buried next to each other.
Debra Eirand-Herskowitz’s husband died in November 2007 and his family quickly buried him at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens.
But that location doesn’t allow non-Jews like her, so she was forced to take her in-laws to court to have Jamie Herskowitz unearthed and buried at a nondenominational cemetery near her home in upstate Tuxedo.
“I feel like my heart will be at peace now, I waited so long for this,” she told The Post last night after learning of Queens Supreme Court Justice Howard Lane’s decision.
Eirand-Herskowitz met her husband in 1988 when she was patrolling Yankee Stadium, where he worked. They were engaged in 1990 and married nine years later.
“He really was one of a kind, to this day my world still revolved around him,” she said.


