Erik
06-21-2009, 04:36 PM
The body of an elderly woman dressed for a funeral and enclosed in a coffin was found in a closed funeral home in San Antonio, a mortuary employee said.
Ada T. Young died in 2004, the San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday. She was given a service in the chapel at the Forest Park Funeral Home but was never buried because her family did not pay for the service or interment.
Willy Hardy, a manager at the funeral home, said he had cared for the body.
"I have always carried that body," Hardy said. "Every time we went to a new location, I had that body with me. I helped them."
But he said his life has now become too stressed.
"I have a very ill sister, and she's at hospice, and I had a tough week from an illness perspective, and I didn't get around to doing anything about it," he said. "But she's been dead since 2004. And her granddaughter has not done anything about it."
Ada T. Young died in 2004, the San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday. She was given a service in the chapel at the Forest Park Funeral Home but was never buried because her family did not pay for the service or interment.
Willy Hardy, a manager at the funeral home, said he had cared for the body.
"I have always carried that body," Hardy said. "Every time we went to a new location, I had that body with me. I helped them."
But he said his life has now become too stressed.
"I have a very ill sister, and she's at hospice, and I had a tough week from an illness perspective, and I didn't get around to doing anything about it," he said. "But she's been dead since 2004. And her granddaughter has not done anything about it."