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'I said it didn't look like my mom' Mortuary mixes up bodies
'I said it didn't look like my mom': Mortuary mixes up bodies and buries the wrong woman despite son's warning
- Edna Lawson, 81, died on July 19
- Son Bruce identified her body but raised suspicions that it wasn't his mom
- The funeral home phoned days after the burial to say they'd found Edna in the back
- An unidentified woman was buried with Bruce's father and will be exhumed
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An 81-year-old woman missed her own funeral after the mortuary mixed up two bodies.
Edna Lawson died on July 19, but the Texas octogenarian was not in the coffin lowered on top of her World War II veteran husband's at a cemetery last weekend.
Bruce Lawson, Edna's son, knew something was wrong when he went to identify his mother's remains at Mabrie Memorial Mortuary, but they insisted everything was fine.
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Bruce Lawson, seen here holding a program from his mother's first memorial service, knew something was wrong when he went to identify his mother's body at a mortuary. Though he knew it didn't look like his mother, he was made to believe her appearance had just greatly changed through the embalming process
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In his grief Bruce became convinced his beloved mother's appearance had changed through the process of embalming and the family went ahead with the service.
After a memorial at the Pentecostal Missionary Baptist Church a coffin with was supposedly Edna's body was put on top of her husband in a shared plot of a Houston cemetery.
Days later the Lawsons received a phone call from the funeral home saying they had Edna's body in the back.
Bruce returned, was once again asked to identify the body, and said, 'now that's my mom.'
Edna's three children now have to face the process of memorializing and burying their mother all over again.
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