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Fri Aug 23, 2013, 08:48 PM Aug 2013

Woman turns up alive after her own funeral

AP 5:39 p.m. EDT August 23, 2013

... Services for 50-year-old Sharolyn Jackson were held Aug. 3 in New Jersey.

Jackson's mother, Carrie Minney, says the woman in the casket looked just like her daughter, except for the nose. She says the family assumed something had happened to the nose during the embalming process.

"There was really a strong resemblance, a really strong resemblance," Minney, 69, said Friday in a phone interview from her home in Trenton, New Jersey. "She looks so much like Sharol they could be sisters."

After Jackson showed up at Pennsylvania Hospital last week, police confirmed her identity through fingerprints. Her son went to the hospital and immediately recognized her ...


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/23/woman-alive-after-funeral/2694005/

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