Ga. woman believes someone took sister's ashes while family prayed

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — No one knows how cremains missing from Georgia ended up washing ashore on a Destin beach, officials said.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page that it’s a “bizarre mystery, but with a happy ending for family members who have never been able to figure out what happened to their sister’s cremains.”

The department said the bag of ashes also contained a tag with a name, date of birth, social security numbers, case number, the name of the funeral home and the location of death as DeKalb County Georgia.

The plastic bag washed ashore on Gulfshore Drive July 7. A man called the Sheriff’s Office explaining that it appeared cremated remains were inside the bag.

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Evidence technician Monique Caldwell was able to make contact with Wages and Son Funeral Home in Lawrenceville and confirmed the bag contained the cremains of a woman named Ngacloan Hua.

The funeral home contacted a sister of Hua.

She told Caldwell that she and other family members had gone to a spot in Georgia to pray and she thought Hua’s cremains were with her. However, the box containing the ashes disappeared.

The Georgia family never knew what happened to the cremains.

The sister believes it’s possible someone took the ashes while the family was praying. Her family has no connection to Destin and no clue how the bag ended up on a Destin beach.

Caldwell says the sister was absolutely elated to learn the remains had been located, and asked that the Sheriff's Office package the bag and return it to the family.

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