Funeral home mixes up bodies

CHICAGO, July 16 (UPI) -- An Illinois funeral home mixed up the bodies of two elderly women forcing one family to go to court to get their grandmother exhumed.

Lillian Grogan, 91, was to be buried Wednesday after her family had her body recovered from the other woman's grave, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Grogan's relatives had arrived for a viewing and found another woman's body in a casket wearing Grogan's dress and favorite bracelet.

"We were all out of our minds," granddaughter Michele Grogan, 35, told the Sun-Times after discovering the mistake. "People were yelling, screaming, hugging, crying."

Michele Grogan said someone at the Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Stickney incorrectly tagged the bodies of Lillian Grogan and an unidentified elderly woman who died on the same day.

The identity of the other woman wasn't given.

A spokeswoman for the company that owns the funeral home declined to discuss the mix-up, the Sun-Times said.