An Oregon mother is being forced to dig up her dead son’s remains after a funeral home double-booked his grave site, with a judge ruling that it should go to scions from a wealthy family that purchased the plot years earlier.
“I think the humanity or lack of it, the cruelty, and someone feeling so entitled that they just wanted that piece of property when someone’s son is already in the ground was sort of unfathomable and she just didn’t know how to manage that,” David Williams, husband of Paula Tin Nyo, whose 20-year-old son Tyber Harrison died in 2016, told local CBS affiliate KOIN.
Tin Nyo had Harrison’s ashes added to a memorial vault that was installed in 2021 at the Portland grave site by Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home, which filed a lawsuit in 2023 seeking the removal. The vault also held Harrison’s baby teeth, hair, and other mementos. He was hit and killed by a truck while walking…