Bag of ashes labelled ‘grandma’ found in off-licence

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Charlie Nguyen, the owner of Charlie’s Liquor and Smoke Shop in Wichita, Kansas, found the unusual item during his shift.

The bag said ‘remains of Helen K. Dapron’ and gave her apparent dates of birth and death as October 1930 and June 2010.

Charlie told local television station KSN: ‘Just like that, people leave phone, keys, stuff like that all the time, but I’ve never seen anything like this.’

Mr Nguyen reviewed security tapes but couldn’t identify the customer so posted a note in his shop.

‘I tried to post it on the door, tried to return it to someone, but nobody came forward to claim this bag,’ he said. Continue reading

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Tags: Ashes, Cremation

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