[BiglyCommentary]

Maybe the guy was a scumbag? The dad could have been 1000% against his daughter marrying this guy and ruining her life and didn’t want to be reminded of him constantly after she was gone. There have a few “boyfriends” my daughters have had that I wanted to put into a grave. I would not want one of them to keep hanging on like some bad veneral disease.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Maybe the guy was a scumbag?

That would have been for the 27 year old daughter to decide, not her father. Unless she was mentally incompetent and incapable of making such decisions for herself, the decent thing for a loving father to do would be to respect her decision and her man, both when she was alive and now, after her death.