original story posted August 19, 2009
Funerals are a sad enough occasion, but it is tragic when certain mishaps go on. In South Philadelphia, a funeral was suppose to take place Tuesday for Kenneth Monroe Roberts, but the family would come to realize the fact that the body inside the casket was not Roberts and had been mixed up with another man.
Roberts was 80-years-old and was an army veteran. His funeral was set to take place at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church on South Broad Street.
The horrifying part to the story is that the funeral home tried to assure the family that the body was actually their loved one, although anyone should easily be able to recognize someone that they've known for a lifetime.
"They kept trying to tell us that it was him and I knew it wasn't him
