Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Honestly … BOTH my Hungarian side (mother) and my Hun/Mick side (father) would have laughed our collective asses off about this. Perhaps even NOT making it through the Catholic funeral mass without stifling chortles and chuckles … or coming up with one liners about Grandma at the calling hours in the funeral home or at the post-funeral wake.

This story brought that to mind.

Horrified Family Finds Wrong Woman Dressed in Their Mother’s Clothes at Her Funeral

The body of an elderly woman was buried in another woman’s grave after a mortuary mistake.

The burial blunder was discovered last week when the family of Mary Jane Janet Ryan, 85, requested a final viewing of their cherished matriarch the day before her funeral in Frankston, in Victoria, Australia.

Bereaved relatives lifted the coffin lid to discover another woman lying in their mother’s clothes and jewelry.

Their anguish deepened when they found their mother, who in total has 69 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, was wrongly buried as the other woman earlier that day at Crib Point cemetery.

Council gravediggers were called in to exhume her body.

Ryan’s son, Michael, said the mix-up was a double blow for the grieving family.

“It was horrifying to find another woman in the coffin when we opened it,” he said. “I was offended and it must have been awful for the other woman’s family too.”

(FOX)