A widower is locked in a battle with his local church in a row over the headstone he has chosen for his wife’s grave. Dave Clark wants a pink-tinted marble headstone to mark his wife’s final resting place in the graveyard at St Mary’s Church, in Small Grains, Fawkham. Janet Clark died from dementia last February and her husband, who cared for her at home for the seven years before her death, has been tending her grave weekly. Mr Clark said: “When my sons and I saw it we all said it was the right one. It matched Janet’s vibrancy. It was the colours she would wear. “It was everything about her. …
