Woman said funeral home 'dressed the wrong body': Lawsuit
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Background: Donald Trimble Mortuary in Decatur, Ga. (Google Maps). Inset: Lucy Mae Johnson (Artic Obits).

A Georgia woman arranging funeral services for her deceased grandmother received surprising news from the mortuary that the individual in the casket was not her grandmother.

Marva Lynch contacted Donald Trimble Mortuary in Decatur to handle arrangements after her cherished 95-year-old grandmother, Lucy Mae Johnson, passed away in July 2023. She gave the mortuary a burial outfit and a wig with instructions for a closed casket service. After the funeral services concluded, a representative from the mortuary informed Lynch that the person in the casket for her grandmother’s funeral wasn’t actually her grandmother.

Now, Lynch is suing the funeral home.

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The lawsuit, as reported by local Fox affiliate WAGA, states that the mortuary confessed to Lynch following the funeral that they had mistakenly “dressed the wrong body in the wig and clothes” before placing it in the casket.

Local ABC affiliate WSB also obtained the lawsuit, which was filed on May 1 in DeKalb County, and it stated that Lynch did briefly look into the casket before the funeral took place, but due to “previous trauma from her mother’s death,” she did not take a close look. Since the casket was closed for services, no one else was able to view who was really inside.

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