Woman calls family 2 weeks after her burial
Published: 2013 August 23 21:17:55 (5373 Views)
Thirteen days after a Philadelphia woman was buried, she called her family.
A funeral was held for Sharolyn Jackson, 50, after a body matching the woman's description was found on 59th and Spruce streets last month, KYW-TV reported.
"I had to call my wife and give her the sad news over the phone that they had just found our daughter dead," Jackson's father, Dave Minnie, told the news station.
But then, the stunned family learned that Jackson turned up in a psychiatric facility — nearly two weeks after the woman's Aug. 3 burial.
"You feel that you're just about to get over it, that she's dead — and then (her son) comes here with the news that she's alive," Minnie said.
"We were happy that our daughter was alive, but we were also unhappy on account of the person that we buried."
Jackson was declared dead after her son and a social worker who knows the woman identified her body, officials and family said.
Minnie said workers with the city's medical examiner showed the pair black and white pictures of the dead woman.
"It looked like Sharol, so (her son) said that was her," Minnie said.
Once a death certificate was issued, the family held a funeral and buried the woman in a Trenton, NJ, cemetery.
But then they got a call that Jackson showed up in a psychiatric hospital on Aug. 16 — causing officials to question who was actually buried early this month.
A spokesperson with the Philadelphia Health Department said that officials are seeking an order to exhume the unknown body to identify the woman.
"(Jackson's) alive, we're happy about that," Minnie said. "Happy for her, but sad for the mother that's missing her daughter."
- NYDaily
A funeral was held for Sharolyn Jackson, 50, after a body matching the woman's description was found on 59th and Spruce streets last month, KYW-TV reported.
"I had to call my wife and give her the sad news over the phone that they had just found our daughter dead," Jackson's father, Dave Minnie, told the news station.
But then, the stunned family learned that Jackson turned up in a psychiatric facility — nearly two weeks after the woman's Aug. 3 burial.
"You feel that you're just about to get over it, that she's dead — and then (her son) comes here with the news that she's alive," Minnie said.
"We were happy that our daughter was alive, but we were also unhappy on account of the person that we buried."
Jackson was declared dead after her son and a social worker who knows the woman identified her body, officials and family said.
Minnie said workers with the city's medical examiner showed the pair black and white pictures of the dead woman.
"It looked like Sharol, so (her son) said that was her," Minnie said.
Once a death certificate was issued, the family held a funeral and buried the woman in a Trenton, NJ, cemetery.
But then they got a call that Jackson showed up in a psychiatric hospital on Aug. 16 — causing officials to question who was actually buried early this month.
A spokesperson with the Philadelphia Health Department said that officials are seeking an order to exhume the unknown body to identify the woman.
"(Jackson's) alive, we're happy about that," Minnie said. "Happy for her, but sad for the mother that's missing her daughter."
- NYDaily
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