‘Dressed the wrong body’: Grieving woman horrified to learn that funeral for her grandmother had a stranger in the casket, lawsuit says

A Georgia pistillate who organized ceremonial services for her precocious grandma was told by the mortuary that the pistillate successful the casket was not her grandmother.

Marva Lynch utilized the services of Donald Trimble Mortuary successful Decatur aft her beloved 95-year-old grandmother, Lucy Mae Johnson, passed away successful July 2023. Lynch provided the mortuary with a burial outfit and a wig, but requested that the work person a closed casket. Once services were finished, idiosyncratic from the mortuary informed Lynch that the assemblage successful the casket for her grandmother’s ceremonial was not really that of her grandmother’s.

Now, Lynch is suing the ceremonial home.

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According to the lawsuit, which was obtained by section Fox affiliate WAGA, the mortuary reportedly admitted to Lynch after the funeral that they “dressed the incorrect assemblage successful the wig and clothes” earlier placing the assemblage successful the casket.

Local ABC affiliate WSB besides obtained the lawsuit, which was filed connected May 1 successful DeKalb County, and it stated that Lynch did concisely look into the casket earlier the ceremonial took place, but owed to “previous trauma from her mother’s death,” she did not instrumentality a adjacent look. Since the casket was closed for services, nary 1 other was capable to presumption who was truly inside.

The suit stated that it was a mortuary worker who told Lynch that the assemblage successful the casket was a alien who had mistakenly been dressed successful the wig and apparel intended for Johnson. This conversation, according to the lawsuit, took spot aft the ceremonial was over.

Lynch paid astir $9,000 for the ceremonial services astatine Donald Trimble Mortuary, which is present being accused of negligence, mishandling quality remains, and breach of contract. The suit is asking for monetary damages to screen the ceremonial costs arsenic good arsenic affectional distress, positive punitive damages and tribunal costs.

Law&Crime reached retired to Lynch’s attorney, Jonathan W. Johnson, arsenic good arsenic Donald Trimble Mortuary but did not person an contiguous response.