Manitoba family devastated after being asked to dig up father following burial plot mix-up
Dan Griffith was buried Jan. 4, but family later told the plot had already been sold
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This article was published 21/01/2021 (2096 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Manitoba family is heartbroken after being asked to exhume their loved one’s body, because he was mistakenly buried in a previously sold cemetery plot earlier this month.
“It’s just reopening the wounds that were just starting close,” said Angela Griffith, whose 62-year-old father, Dan Griffith, died in his home in Deloraine, Man. — about 250 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg — on Christmas Day.
The family held a small graveside burial on Jan. 4, Griffith said. They couldn’t have a full funeral due to pandemic restrictions.
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Updated on Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:16 AM CST: Replaces photo