WINNIPEG A Manitoba family is reliving the heartbreak of losing their father as they have been asked to dig up his body and move it because the plot the family purchased already had been sold to someone else. Dan Griffith, 62, died unexpectedly Christmas Day at his home in Deloraine, Man., and he was buried on Jan. 4. Amanda Griffith-Conway, one of Dan s daughters, said on Jan. 14 her family was called about a mistake at the cemetery. The spot where my dad had been buried was sold prior to someone else and there was a mix-up with the town and it was actually double sold, said Griffith-Conway.
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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.
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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.
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Dan Griffith s body was buried in the Deloraine Cemetery on Jan. 4, but his family has now been told the plot belongs to another family. They ve been asked to have his body exhumed and relocated. (Submitted by Courtney Hainsworth)
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