When her 95-year-old grandmother died in July 2023, Marva Lynch was in charge of the funeral plans.
Lynch provided Donald Trimble Mortuary with the clothing and wig that Lucy Mae Johnson was to wear for burial, according to a lawsuit filed in DeKalb County state court. But the day of Johnson’s funeral, it wasn’t the great-grandmother of seven whose body was in the casket, Lynch was told by a funeral director during the service.
“Upon information and belief, defendant dressed the wrong body in the wig and clothes provided by plaintiff for her grandmother’s burial,” Lynch said in the suit…