For more than 30 years, 85-year-old Daisy Marshall believed her husband’s ashes were safely contained in an urn at her home. Now she’s not sure whose remains she’s been keeping.
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Woman claims funeral home stored husband’s ashes for 28 years without notice
“Where had those ashes been for all that time, and whose ashes did I have?” Marshall said.
The shocking discovery came in 2022 when Marshall was making her own prearrangements at Great Lakes National Cemetery. She wanted to be cremated and interred with her husband, Charles, an Air Force veteran. That’s when cemetery staffers delivered devastating news.
“They told me that somebody, well, somebody was interred under my husband’s ID already. And the ashes had been delivered there in December of 2018,” Marshall said…