- The family arrived at the funeral to find the wrong person in the coffin
- They say the funeral director was then ‘indifferent and rude’ to them when they pointed out the mistake in shock
- Things were eventually resolved, but the grieving family is reeling from the ordeal
A family in Georgia was shocked and upset when they showed up to an open casket at a relative’s funeral and found the wrong person.
Georgia Robinson, the sister of Mary Jean Robinson — who recently died in Jackson, Mississippi — said she could tell something was wrong from the moment she walked into the room where the wake was being held.
“When we got in there and signed the books and everything, we walked down to look at her body, and I knew something was wrong,” Georgia told the locals. Fox station.
‘From way back I could see it wasn’t her. I didn’t know who was in the coffin.’
Robinson died at the end of October at the age of 68.
Mary Jean Robinson died late last month at the age of 68. Her family almost buried someone who wasn’t her, a mistake that was caught at what was supposed to be her funeral
The family said that even after the misunderstanding was pointed out, the directors of Peoples Funeral Home were rude and unapologetic about the devastating situation.
The shocked family did not find Mary Jean at her own funeral, but they did find a stranger wearing the clothes and jewelry they had specially chosen to bury their loved one in.
Georgia said she told the funeral director that the person presented was not in fact the right person, although the outfit, accessories, flowers and casket were the right ones.
In a moment of shock that came on a day already set aside for grief, Georgia said Peoples Funeral Home staff were rude and rude to her family.
“We tell him (the funeral home director) about the mistake, and he was very rude and very indifferent,” Georgia said.
‘He had an attitude towards my son. He told us we had to pay for everything again.”
Ultimately, she said, the funeral home met some of the family’s demands. They bought Mary Jean new clothes, but never placed her in the right casket.
“I told him not to do anything to my sister that was with that lady,” she said, referring to the woman who ended up in her sister’s coffin.
“He put the earrings on her anyway.”
The woman who is still grieving the loss of her sister said the whole ordeal has affected her emotionally.
Georgia said she feels extremely dismayed because her family could easily have buried the wrong person
“I feel terrible,” she said. “Imagine if we had had a closed casket, we would have ended up burying someone else’s loved one instead of our own.”
James Stewart, one of the funeral directors, responded to an inquiry from the local outlet and would neither confirm nor deny that there had been a mix-up.
However, he said the Robinson clan told the company they were satisfied with their services.