OCEAN CITY, N.J. — Paulette Eva Rose Tricoche died final summer time at age 71.
The Reidsville, Georgia girl was cremated and her ashes positioned in a purple urn, etched along with her delivery and demise dates, together with a easy message: “In Loving Reminiscence Mother.”
On Oct. 7, that urn washed ashore in Ocean Metropolis, New Jersey – greater than 800 miles away from the Georgia city of 5,000 west of Savannah.
Ryan Leonard, 39, mentioned his youngsters discovered the urn in some sea grass exterior their dwelling on Friday.
Jackson, 7 and Reid, 3, had been sifting by way of “sea grass that had washed up within the storm,” Leonard mentioned in an interview Friday.
It was discovered with different random issues like small bouys and a flip flop.
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The household lives proper on the bay and is conversant in issues washing up there, “largely issues that drop off a ship into the lagoon – tags and surfboards, that form of stuff,” however by no means one thing as odd as an urn.
Leonard discovered an obituary for Tricoche on-line, however could not discover something a couple of household. He reached out to the funeral dwelling that posted the obituary.
On Saturday, Oct. 8, Bradley B. Anderson, of the Bradley B. Anderson Funeral House mentioned a test of his data point out Tricoche was initially from Cape Could Court docket Home, New Jersey, however was dwelling in Macon, Georgia, when she handed.
Her stays had been shipped to a member of the family in Cape Could County final summer time, mentioned Anderson, whose funeral dwelling can be a regional, low-cost crematorium.
“What it sounds wish to me is, she tried to do a burial at sea and it washed up,” he mentioned.
Anderson mentioned he was making an attempt to place the member of the family in contact with Leonard so they may work out the subsequent steps.
For now, the Leonards are storing the urn of their storage.
