Mary Hurst wants to honor her mother's dying wish of being buried next to her husband, who died of cancer nearly four decades ago.

The problem is, officials at the cemetery where Hurst's father is buried, now say they can't find his gravesite.

Hurst says she attended her father's burial at St. Sava Cemetery in Libertyville on November 10, 1966. When she recently called the cemetery, however, she was told the plot cannot be located.

Cemetery administrator Sasha Nedic said he has looked several times for Dragoljub Ilic's grave, citing it is possible the grave is unmarked or was moved in 1979, when a change in ownership resulted in some graves being moved to a property in nearby Grayslake.

Ilic's death certificate says he was buried in St. Sava. Hurst, meanwhile, says the family paid $245 for a vault and $150 for a reserved grave for her mother . But she says she has no record of a grave marker.

Margaret Muzyka, owner of the Muzyka & Sons funeral home, says a book lists Ilic's funeral and burial in St. Sava, but adds the home's records from 1966 were destroyed in a flood, and there are no records of a tombstone.

Hurst sats she and her mother saw the grave marker when they visited the cemetery three months after her father was buried. The family moved to Illinois a few months later and never returned to the site.