In Mississippi, a grieving family faced additional distress when they arrived at the funeral, only to discover a different woman in the casket, adorned in their loved one's clothes and jewelry.?
Georgia Robinson, expressing immediate concern, sensed something was amiss as they gathered at the Jackson funeral home on November 3, ready to say their final goodbyes to her sister, Mary Jean Robinson.
“Once we got in there and signed the books and everything, we were walking down to view her body, and I knew something was kind of off. I could tell that it wasn’t her from far back,”?Robinson told WLBT.
"No, ma’am, this is not my sister. This is her casket, this is the outfit that we brought her, this is the jewelry that we brought her, and I said these are her flowers, but I didn’t know who that is in the casket,”?Robinson?told the outlet.??
“We’re telling him about the mistake, and he was very rude and very uncaring. He had an attitude with my son. [He] told us that we were going to have to pay for everything all over again,” the grieving woman said.
?“I told him not to put anything on my sister that was on that lady. He put the earrings on her anyway,” Robinson told the outlet.
“I feel terrible. Just to think, if we had a closed casket, we would have ended up burying someone else’s loved one instead of ours,” she added.
?James Stewart, a director at the funeral home, told WLBT that he couldn't confirm or deny a mix-up but emphasized that the family expressed satisfaction with the services.
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