Preceded/succeeded by text on a tombstone

Errors in usage are not unusual in video games. It's common for obituaries (which this seems more like, as I can't imagine it fitting on a tombstone!) to mention relatives of the deceased who live on after them, with the phrase "[she] is survived by...". It's less common, though not unimaginable, for a tombstone to reference relatives who died earlier than the deceased, perhaps with a phrase like "preceded in death by" ("preceded," alone, would not be idiomatic in this context). This page about Roman epitaphs shows one Lucius Aurelius Hermia devoting a bit of his own epitaph to praising his wife, "she who preceded me in death."

However, this is an unlikely reading in this context. Maybe Joseph Miller might have (tragically) died before his mother—but unless you're playing a zombie game, it's unlikely that the entire "beloved community" did.