Three sisters in Virginia were left devastated and brimming with questions after learning the ashes they received in an urn did not belong to their recently deceased father.
A Virginia family was shocked to find that their loved one had not been cremated like the funeral home insisted he had been
‘We heard the machine come on so we thought “Okay, this is all said and done,” and we’re grieving and we walk away,’ Sohan’s daughter, Brenda Karpaiya, toldThey were also provided a document certifying their father’s cremation. Their father died after a bout of pneumonia at the age of 73.The day before they were set to pick up their father’s ashes for the burial, a man claiming to work for the funeral home tipped them off that his body was never cremated.
The next morning another worker at the Miller Funeral home in Woodbridge, Virginia, handed sisters a urn containing someone else’s ashes.Gangadar Sohan was supposed to be cremated at Miller Funeral Home, Virginia Workers at the funeral home then suggested to the angered daughter that there had been some kind of ‘mess up.’
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