Two sisters paying their final goodbyes to their mum before her funeral were shocked to find a stranger wearing her clothes lying in a coffin.
The grieving pair were initially told by funeral home workers that no mistake had been made, but staff went into the embalming room and found the body of their beloved mum Mary Archer.
Daughters Jennetta Archer and Jennifer Taylor said there’s no resemblance between their mother and the woman who was in the casket.
The pair were shocked at not seeing their mum.
Jenetta said: “There’s no similarity in the person.
"Their size was way off – when the first person had the clothing on, she was swimming in the clothing because she was so small compared to my mother.”
Only once their mother’s body was found to still be in the embalming room, workers at Hunter’s Funeral Home in Ahoskie, North Carolina admitted there was an issue.
A lead embalmer at the funeral home confirmed the mistake to news outlet WAV in the US.
The embalmer said the home had tried to reach out to the family to discuss the problem, but the sisters said they haven’t received a call from the home.
The bodies were eventually switched and the service was able to go ahead as planned.
