SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains were reported missing from the family’s burial plot.

Thelma Cooper lived a long, productive life. She had four children. She and her husband, the late Sidney Cooper, Sr. made a name for themselves in San Diego by helping others and founding the city's ...

This picture provided by the Cooper family shows Sidney and Thelma Cooper, married on May 19, 1953, in San Diego. Sidney Cooper's remains were not buried in the plot as expected and remain missing.