BETH LARRAIN WHENNEN, Complainant

VS.

MEMORIAL LAWN CEMETERY, INC., PLANNING AND SERVICES CORP., and JAMES C. PETERSEN, Respondents.

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. The Complainant, Beth Whennen, timely filed verified complaint CP# 03-85-12709 with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 4, 1985, alleging a violation of Iowa Code section 601A.6, discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, by Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Inc., Planning and Services Corp., and James C. Petersen, Respondents.

2. The complaint was investigated, probable cause found, conciliation attempted but failed. Notice of Hearing was issued on July 28, 1987.

ISSUE I - WAS THERE INTERFERENCE WITH COMPLAINANT'S RIGHT TO VISIT GRAVES OF HER RELATIVES?

1. Whennen had several graves of relatives in the Memorial Cemetery. She did not visit those graves between the time she quit her job and the time her child was born on May 25, 1985. After the birth of her child, she felt uncomfortable visiting those graves. She felt that Dottie Martin (Respondents' sales manager) who was hired in September 1984, would watch her when she visited. (Transcript 192) Whennen's mother also testified that they were questioned as to what they were doing at the cemetery. (Transcript 270)

2. The office where Martin worked was inside the mausoleum. There were no windows in her office and the mausoleum had only the window in the entrance door. There were no restrictions on entering and leaving the cemetery.