After failing to recover the pending $750 bill for a headstone for almost a year, an Utah-based company dealing in cemetery goods devised a new way to get its money back.

Memorial Art Monuments repossessed the cemetery headstone of a teenager who died in a car wreck in May to gain attention from the owners. Brady Conger, 17, and two friends died when their car smashed into a sport utility vehicle a year ago.

Though the move deeply hurt the family of the teenager, Memorial Art said this was the last step they thought of after bills sent to one address were returned and they were not able to reach Brady's mother, who had agreed last year to pay the balance.

"The end result was that there was absolutely no one who I could talk to about this," owner Mike Anderson is quoted by AP as saying. However, the matter was resolved and the bills paid quickly after Brady's classmates raised the money. Now the headstone will be installed again this week.