PRICHARD, Ala. ( WKRG ) — Three different women in a casket, three grieving families’ worst nightmare and a funeral home under investigation.
The concerns of these families have prompted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office to launch an investigation into Memorial Funeral Home on Saint Stephens Road in Prichard.
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WKRG News 5 sat down exclusively with two families who said Memorial Funeral Home presented the wrong loved ones to them in their caskets.
It all started on Aug. 30 for the Williams family when Lakishia Williams went to the funeral home expecting to see her grandmother, Dollie Williams, in her casket.
“When I walked in and approached the body in the casket, I had informed the gentleman that wasn’t my grandmother,” she explained. “And I asked him, I say, did you get the wrong body from the hospital? And he assured me that was my grandmother.”
Confused and puzzled as to who was lying in the casket in her grandmother’s clothing, she said the employee insisted the person was Dollie.