Pennsylvania: Mistaken Identity at Funeral

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Philadelphia woman has turned up alive nearly two weeks after her family held a funeral and burial for her. Services for Sharolyn Jackson, 50, were held on Aug. 3. Carrie Minney, Ms. Jackson’s mother, said the woman in the coffin looked identical to her daughter, except for the nose; she says the family assumed something happened to it during the embalming process. But Ms. Jackson showed up at a mental health facility in Philadelphia last week. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Health said Ms. Jackson’s son and a social worker who knows her had viewed photographs of a woman’s body and identified it as hers. The body that was buried will be exhumed in hopes of identifying it.