Texas family says funeral home put wrong body in father’s casket, dressed him in father’s clothes
(Meredith) — A Texas family is heartbroken and outraged after they say a funeral home delivered the wrong body to their loved one’s memorial service.
Making matters worse, their relative’s chosen clothes were on the stranger’s body.
Cordova – a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather – was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May. He spent his last two weeks at home with his family.
The day of the funeral for Nati Cordova, immediate family members gathered for a special but socially-distanced service.
The casket was late, but Cordova’s daughter Maria Vasquez said she didn’t mind its tardiness – until she opened it. The body of a man Vasquez had never seen before was lying in place of her father. He was wearing her father’s special Mexico soccer jersey that she had picked for her father to wear.
“You go up to the casket to just tell him ‘I love you’ before anybody comes in, and you’re touching the wrong person with your dad’s clothes… it’s not OK,” Vasquez told KPRC.
Cordova’s other daughter Susana Montelongo said the incident was traumatizing.
“It was just horrible, like, we are living in a nightmare movie, it was just very traumatic to us and to our family,” Montelongo told KPRC.
Eventually, the situation was resolved more than two hours later, with the family finally being able to say their goodbyes to Cordova.
“Instead of having good memories of a perfect funeral for our father because he deserved the best, we are having a nightmare,” Montelongo told KPRC.
The family says the funeral home refunded their money, but they plan on filing a lawsuit.
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