Forest Lawn Will Pay $75,000 for Disruption
Forest Lawn Memorial-Park has agreed to a $75,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by a Woodland Hills woman over the disruption of her 17-year-old daughter’s funeral by punk rockers, attorney Carol S. Boyk said Tuesday.
The lawyer said her client, Francine Ross, had asked the mortuary to exclude punk rockers from the funeral of Kristie Ann Ross after the teen-ager--who had been involved in the punk rock scene herself--died of a drug overdose in May, 1981.
But when the funeral was held at Forest Lawn-Hollywood, Boyk said punkers disturbed the rites by making noise, swearing at invited guests, apparently drinking from flasks and sniffing a substance out of a tin.
The lawsuit charged that Forest Lawn officials did nothing to control the punksters and refused to call police until the disruptions had lasted for more than an hour. The suit was twice dismissed by lower courts and ordered reinstated on appeal.
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