A GRIEVING widow has been left "heart broken" after the the final resting place for her late husband has 'disappeared' from a Glasgow cemetery.

Rena Mackay, 86, had planned to lay half of her husband Douglas' ashes at his parents' grave in Lambhill cemetery.

But when undertakers went to the cemetery, they couldn't find the head stone of the 88-year-old's parents and Rena's own parent's gravestone had been split in three.

The cross had been removed completely, and the top section of the headstone appears to have been cleaved off.

Rena, who now lives in Carnoustie, was devastated when she received photographs of her parents' damaged grave, and news of the other missing one.

The couple had planned to split their ashes between Carnoustie and Glasgow, where they met and grew up.

Rena, a former teacher, said: "The marble cross at my father and mother's grave was smashed and Douglas' parent's cross has disappeared.

"He doesn't have a final resting place, my heart is broken.

"The stonemason in Glasgow said he had never seen cemeteries in such a state.

"It's like Beirut after the bombing.

"How can we possibly get our ashes interred there when it is such a mess?

"I'm so outraged with the cuts that the council have put in place, it's obviously affecting graveyard maintenance.

"It clearly shows, if you look at the graves, including those of our own parents."

Through tears, Rena told of how her husband, rector of the Church of the Holy Rood in Carnoustie and vice provost of St Paul’s Cathedral in Dundee, "touched the lives of so many people" through his work in the church.

He also helped to start the Carnoustie Community Helpline, which helps people travel to and from medical appointments, and was a member of the community council, Red Cross and rotary club in the area.

She said: "For a local boy to attain what he did attain...he looked after so many people but his home was Glasgow, as is mine.

"This is where we wanted our ashes to be and he couldn’t have his one last simple wish fulfilled.

"His parents and my parent's graves were 20 yards apart, I don't know what to do about it."

Rena has now ordered two new headstones and said: "I can only hope that once they are put in place that somebody would have the decency to take care of them.

"I don't mean the cosmetic side, I just mean the actual graveyard."

A Glasgow city council spokesman said the council had no knowledge of the missing headstone, or the damaged one.

A GCC spokeswoman said: “While cemeteries are the responsibility of the local council, memorials in cemeteries are not.

"They are the responsibility of the lair owner.

"We have had no contact from anyone regarding this however we are more than willing to contact the undertaker as well as Mrs Mackay so that the location of her late husband’s parents’ grave is located as quickly as possible."