Burial mix-up shocks family

MEMPHIS, April 16 (UPI) -- A 67-year-old Tennessee woman was buried in the wrong place at the wrong time due to an apparent mix-up at a Memphis funeral home.

M.J. Edwards Funeral Home officials told Tracey Meeks they mistakenly buried her mother, Pauline Parker, who died April 8, somewhere in West Tennessee, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported Friday.

A relative thought something was wrong when he went to the funeral home to fix Parker's hair Tuesday and told Meeks she looked "darker" than he remembered.

The next day, Meeks said she "got the runaround" when she went to the funeral home to see her mother for herself.

"I joked (with the funeral director) saying, what could be the problem, you buried the wrong body?" Meeks said. "He turned to me and said, exactly'."

Parker's body was exhumed and re-buried Thursday.

An official of the Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers said his office doesn't get many complaints of mixed-up bodies.