Stricken mother watches as funeral home digs up remains of son, 20, after blundering staff double-booked his GRAVE
Paula Tin Nyo begged Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home employees not to dig up her late son Tyber Harrison after it was revealed the company double-booked his grave.
An Oregon mother has been left completely distraught following a judge's order to have her son's remains dug up after a funeral home double-booked his grave.
Paula Tin Nyo, 62, begged Oregon's Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home to leave her late son Tyber Harrison's final resting place alone after it was revealed that a wealthy family purchased the same plot years before she did.
Harrison, 20, was tragically hit and killed by a truck in March 2016 while walking near the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where he attended school.
In 2021, his mother bought internment rights for a plot that 'was believed to be a "newly created" space,' according to a lawsuit Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home filed against Tin Nyo in 2023.
However, the following year, Tin Nyo received word from the funeral home that Martin and Jane Reser, scions of the $2 billion Reser's Fine Foods company, had bought that very plot for their late son, Alex Reser, in 2019, the legal filing reviewed by the Daily Mail stated.
Reser, a 30-year-old accountant, died on March 4, 2019, from a fentanyl overdose after becoming addicted to painkillers following a back injury while wrestling in college, Oregon Live reported. He is interred nearby in the Reser's family plot.
After discovering the horrible blunder, the funeral home admitted to the error but insisted it had to honor the family that had first purchased the space, court documents read.
In early December, Judge Eric J. Neiman ruled that the plot belonged to the Reser's and that Harrison's remains will be exhumed as a result, according to court filings.
Paula Tin Nyo begged Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home employees not to dig up her late son Tyber Harrison after it was revealed the company double-booked his grave
Harrison, 20, was tragically hit and killed by a truck in March 2016 while walking near the University of Central Florida Orlando
On December 22, after Tin Nyo filed a counterclaim against the cemetery for $17 million, a jury found that although Skyline Memorial was negligent in the overbooking of the grave site, they did not inflict 'severe emotional distress,' per court documents.
Prior to the final decision, the funeral home 'repeatedly' offered 'alternative interment rights' to Tin Nyo, including relocation of the memorial bench that was placed at Harrison's grave and the vault she added to the site that holds her late son's baby teeth, hair, and a small amount of his ashes.
Court records stated that because she placed those personal mementos in her son's vault, she breached her contract with the funeral home, court records stated.