Man Killed by Mother-in-Law’s Falling Headstone at Pennsylvania Cemetery

time.com - An elderly man visiting his mother-in-law’s gravesite in a Pennsylvania cemetery was killed by her tumbling headstone on Monday.

Stephen Woytack, 74, was fatally crushed at St. Joseph Cemetery in Throop while adorning the grave for Easter, according to ABC affiliate WNEP.

“It happened so quickly,” his wife Lucy Woytack, who was with him at the time, told the Times-Tribune.

Woytack used to visit the cemetery with his wife annually and was known to the caretaker staff.

“Usually, I come down and talk to them right away; [but] I went around the other end to start picking up the Christmas ornaments, and [his wife] came running up, ‘Help me, the stone fell on Stephen,’” said cemetery caretaker Ed Kubilus.