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Ashes missing from mausoleum PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 16 September 2004
By SYLVIA LOBATO

ALAMOSA — After reposing safely since the 1930s in the Hansen Mausoleum at the Alamosa Cemetery, the ashes of Lillian Tingle have gone missing.
Eileen Hansen Burt, caretaker of the mausoleum, said she went into the old stone structure about three years ago to help Garth Sowards place a memorial plaque on the door telling who was at rest there and went in to clean up some water damage that had taken place due to lawn sprinklers at the cemetery.

At that time, the copper box that held the ashes of Lillian’s husband was there and in good shape, but the box that held his wife’s cremains had begin to deteriorate. The husband died several years before his wife and the couple’s son, a music teacher in Alamosa, accepted the Hansens’ offer of crypt space for his parents.

Eileen collected Lillian’s box and ashes and took them to a local funeral home, where the ashes were placed in a dark brown plastic box, sealed with clear packing tape. That box was then taped securely to the copper box and left to rest for eternity.

This week, Eileen was checking the mausoleum prior to taking a vacation trip and noticed that the old lock and hasp had been bent and someone had been inside the structure. She entered and found that the brown plastic box had been taken by someone who had inexplicably left behind the copper one, along with a carved cross.

The Alamosa Police department is investigating, and Eileen has asked whoever took the box or anyone who might have seen it to retrieve it and leave it at the cemetery office, no questions asked.
Although the Tingles only had one son, and he is deceased, Eileen emphasized that the ashes are of someone who was dearly loved, and had been safe in the Hansen family mausoleum for decades, so she is concerned that someone would disturb them now.

“We just want them back,” Eileen said, “so they can be back where they should be.

The box is labeled with the name, “Lillian Tingle” and the information that she was cremated in San Diego, Calif.


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