Box Labeled 'Grandma's Urn' Left At Goodwill Store

FENTON, Mich. -- State police in Michigan are trying to find who left what appear to be a grandmother's cremated remains in an urn at a Goodwill store near Flint.

Fenton Goodwill store manager Allen Ryckman says "it's got to be the No. 1 or No. 2 weirdest item" the store has ever received. He says it appears to have come from a house that was cleaned out.

The Flint Journal says store workers found the box just before Easter.

The box has the label "grandma's urn." The cream-colored urn is about 10 inches tall and weighs about 10 pounds. It doesn't have any identifying marks or label.

The Michigan State Police Flint post asks anyone with information to call. Anyone with information may contact the Flint post at 810-732-1111.

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Comments

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

04:24 PM on 06/13/2011

I worked for Goodwill in 1968. People just load the boxes on the porch. My mom's ashes are in my closet with all my shoes, until a family member can take them to Maui. If something happened to me, anything could happen to her ashes. C'est la Morte.

[jsand96876]

03:03 AM on 06/12/2011

Attention shoppers! All cremated remains with a yellow price tag are 20% off this week.

[MyNinja]

05:51 PM on 06/10/2011

So if it ends up being #2 on the wierd list I wanna know what #1 was!

[thegrrrr8est]

03:40 PM on 06/10/2011

Who cares? When you're dead, you're dead. Funerals and urns and headstones and all the other nonsense that accompanies death is to fluff up the egos and assuage the fears of the living. All utter silliness.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

04:20 PM on 06/13/2011

There is something that is pretty genuine and that is the loving sentiment of survivors. It is not for the dead, but for the living that ceremonies are held and respects expressed. Live and let live and let the living mourn the dead.

[natal plum]

02:01 PM on 06/10/2011

If she'd had a better will she wouldn't've been left to goodwill

[Gronkie]

01:15 PM on 06/10/2011

The most important part of the story was left out - were there ashes in it? If not, her ashes were probably distributed in some place that was special to grandma, making this just an old empty urn with no particular special meaning. If the ashes were still in it, however, that's a different story altogether.

[coleyjay]

01:18 PM on 06/10/2011

It says: "...left what appear to be a grandmother's cremated remains in an urn..."

[Gronkie]

02:03 PM on 06/10/2011

D'OH!

You're right, my bad.

[sylvabugg2]

12:17 PM on 06/10/2011

Wow, instead of "Throw Momma From the Train", it's just throw her out. What a shame.

[tehchrisizard]

01:38 PM on 06/10/2011

hah, that rhymed

[MyNinja]

05:52 PM on 06/10/2011

"Owen Loves his Mama!"