Nebraska woman returns sister's ashes to Wal-Mart

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Nebraska woman returns sister's ashes to Wal-Mart

Reuters, Posted December 28 2001, 1:27 PM EST

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OMAHA, Nebraska - A Nebraska woman who received an ornate box for Christmas and returned it to Wal-Mart without looking inside discovered later it contained the ashes of her recently deceased sister, a newspaper reported Friday.

Judy Money received the box as a gift from her brother who lives in Iowa. But after unwrapping the package on Christmas Eve she saw the box had a broken knob and decided to return it to Wal-Mart without ever looking at the contents inside, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

When Money later confessed to her brother that she had returned his gift, he told her the box contained the ashes of their sister, who had died Dec. 11, the Herald said.

Marvin Tippery, Money's brother, told the Herald he was shocked when he found out she had returned the box. ``No, no, you didn't! Your sister was in there,'' the Herald quoted him as telling Money.

Money told the Herald she made a mad dash back to Wal-Mart, but the box had already been thrown out with the trash.

Money and her brother finally found the box Thursday amid trash piles at an area landfill.

``My prayers have been answered,'' she told the Herald. ``Just the thought of having her in the dump was awful.''

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-- Anonymous, January 02, 2002

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Sounds a little like the joke of the knowing wife who packed her husbands PJs in his tackle box for his "fishing" trip. Upon arriving home he said he had a great time fishing, but she had forgotten to pack his PJs.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2002

I didn't know that WalMart sold such things, but I guess the brother was trying to save a buck and bought a cheap box. LOL

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2002

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