The family of a man who died in 1966 is trying to locate his grave in a Chicago-area cemetery and so far has dug up two other bodies. but not his.

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Dragoljub Ilic, an immigrant from Yugoslavia, was buried in St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cemetery in Libertyville after his death from cancer. The family moved away and the headstone disappeared from the grave, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Now, Ilic's 80-year-old widow wants to be buried with her husband, and their daughter, Mary Hurst of Fort Worth, has considered moving her father's body to Texas. But the family has not been able to find it because the cemetery's record of his burial has vanished.

An old friend of Ilic's has told them they were looking in the wrong place. He told them Ilic was buried in a plot with four unmarked graves, five rows away from the area they had been searching.

"He said that after we moved, he came back up here several years after and went to visit my dad," Hurst said Saturday.