"He was a bit of a fanatic, but this is personal to him. How can they possibly say what we have put on there is lowering standards?"
Mrs Robinson said the stonemason did not realise they had a duty to consult the parish council.
"If the council had objected then, I would probably have agreed not to have the inscription, but now it is there I am standing my ground," she said.
The parish council said the stone was against regulations and had to be removed.
"It contravenes the guidelines that we laid down two years ago," parish councillor Sue Rowlandson said.
"We were becoming concerned about the inappropriateness of some of the things that were appearing on headstones.
"We agreed a set of guidelines that there would be simple inscriptions. You've got to have a set of guidelines and that's what we're doing."
The council will discuss the matter next month.