Jeni Kinney’s mother called, her voice trembling with shock.
She’d just bought a decorative glass globe at the Goodwill store near her Missouri home — and when she opened up the back
of it on the drive home, she saw something alarming inside: human ashes.
“She said, ‘Jeni, what do I do? I bought something and it has someone’s ashes in it,’ ” Kinney recalled in an interview with The Washington Post.
The globe, which cost $2 and had a printed prayer inside the glass dome, played the song “Amazing Grace” when a dial was turned. It also displayed a photo of a smiling woman.
Kinney’s mother, Anita Minks, had picked it up at the thrift store on July 31 thinking she’d place a photo of her son in it. Her son had passed away 15 years ago, at age 33, and she was hoping to add to his shrine in her living room...read more
