NM thieves steal coins, new TV... and man's ashes

[August 07, 2009]  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A woman in New Mexico wants the burglars who broke into her home to return something she can't buy or replace: her son's ashes.

KOAT-TV reported Wednesday that Dianna Towndrow's home in Los Chavez was broken into last week and the thieves took a wooden box containing the cremated remains of her son, Dave.

Towndrow said her 20-year-old son drowned in 2000 and that she kept his ashes, personal items, and his birth and death certificates in the box,  thinking "it would all be safe and sound."

Towndrow said the thieves also took some silver coins and her new flat-screen TV, but all she wants back is her son.

She said it's hard "to lose him twice."

She's asking for the return of the ashes to Belen's Riverside Funeral Home, no questions asked.

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Information from: KOAT-TV, http://www.koat.com/

[Associated Press]

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