{"id":241513,"date":"2023-11-16T22:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=241513"},"modified":"2023-11-16T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:24:29","slug":"mississippi-family-outraged-after-finding-wrong-person-in-casket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/mississippi-family-outraged-after-finding-wrong-person-in-casket\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi family outraged after finding WRONG person in casket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Family is left outraged after turning up to Mississippi wake to find the WRONG person in the casket wearing the clothes and jewelry they bought for their loved one &#8211; as &#8216;rude and uncaring&#8217; staff demanded more MONEY to correct the mistake<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The family arrived at the funeral only to find the wrong person in the casket\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They say the funeral director was then &#8216;uncaring and rude&#8217; with them when they, in shock, pointed out the mistake\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Things were eventually sorted, but the grieving family has been left reeling from the ordeal\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A family in Georgia were shocked and upset when they showed up to a relative&#8217;s open casket funeral only to find the wrong person on display.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Robinson, the sister of Mary Jean Robinson &#8211; who passed away recently in Jackson, Mississippi &#8211; said she could tell something was off from the moment she stepped foot into the room where the wake was being held.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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,&#8217; Georgia told the local Fox station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I could tell that it wasn&#8217;t her from far back. I didn&#8217;t know who was in the casket.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson passed away at the age of 68 in late October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/21\/77902197-12759191-image-m-6_1700170323974.jpg\" height=\"956\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mary Jean Robinson died at 68 late last month. Her family very nearly buried someone who was not her, a mistake that was caught at what was meant to be her funeral<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/21\/77902167-12759191-image-m-2_1700169999654.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The family said that even after the mixup was pointed out, the Peoples Funeral Home directors were rude and unapologetic about the devastating situation<\/p>\n<p>The horrified family didn&#8217;t find Mary Jean at her own funeral, but they did find a stranger wearing the clothing and jewelry they had specifically chosen for their loved one to be buried in.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia said she told the funeral director that the person being presented was not, in fact, the correct individual &#8211; though the outfit, accessories, flowers, and casket were the right ones.<\/p>\n<p>In a moment of shock that took place on a day already reserved for sorrow, Georgia said the employees of the Peoples Funeral Home were unapologetic and rude to her family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re telling him (the funeral home director) about the mistake, and he was very rude and very uncaring,&#8217; said Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He had an attitude with my son. He told us that we were going to have to pay for everything all over again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, she said, the funeral home met some of the family&#8217;s demands. They purchased new clothes for Mary Jean, but never wound up placing her in the right casket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I told him not to put anything on my sister that was on that lady,&#8217; she said, referring to the woman who ended up in her sister&#8217;s casket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He put the earrings on her anyway.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The woman still mourning the loss of her sister said the entire ordeal has impacted her emotionally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/16\/21\/77902715-12759191-image-a-57_1700170658266.jpg\" height=\"497\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Georgia said she feels extremely dismayed that her family easily could have wound up burying the wrong person<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel terrible,&#8217; she said. &#8216;Just to think, if we had a closed casket, we would have ended up burying someone else&#8217;s loved one instead of ours.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to an inquiry from the local outlet, James Stewart &#8211; one of the funeral directors &#8211; would neither confirm nor deny that any mix-up had occurred.<\/p>\n<p>He said, however, that the Robinson clan told the company they were pleased with their services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12759191\/Mississippi-funeral-death-casket-wrong-person-outrage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family is left outraged after turning up to Mississippi wake to find the WRONG person in the casket wearing the clothes and jewelry they bought for their loved one &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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