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Wrong Maine woman declared dead in obit
by Outspoken on Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:16 am
Wrong Maine woman declared dead in obit
By Aimee Dolloff
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine - Anne E. Hathaway was somewhat shocked Friday when a friend called to see if she was still alive.
The Orono resident’s obituary had appeared in Friday’s Bangor Daily News. The information in the short obituary and the list of death notices was correct, except for the part about her being dead.
The deceased was actually Ann Hathaway of Bangor.
Both women had made advance funeral arrangements at the same funeral home. When pulling the file for the deceased Ann Hathaway, the funeral home employee didn’t realize there were two women with very similar names and grabbed the wrong one.
"A friend called me early this morning because somebody had called her and said, ‘Weren’t you with Anne yesterday? Well, she’s gone," Hathaway said Friday afternoon.
At 92, Hathaway admits she’s no spring chicken but said that she’s not dead yet.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=157802&zoneid=500
(Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
By Aimee Dolloff
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine - Anne E. Hathaway was somewhat shocked Friday when a friend called to see if she was still alive.
The Orono resident’s obituary had appeared in Friday’s Bangor Daily News. The information in the short obituary and the list of death notices was correct, except for the part about her being dead.
The deceased was actually Ann Hathaway of Bangor.
Both women had made advance funeral arrangements at the same funeral home. When pulling the file for the deceased Ann Hathaway, the funeral home employee didn’t realize there were two women with very similar names and grabbed the wrong one.
"A friend called me early this morning because somebody had called her and said, ‘Weren’t you with Anne yesterday? Well, she’s gone," Hathaway said Friday afternoon.
At 92, Hathaway admits she’s no spring chicken but said that she’s not dead yet.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=157802&zoneid=500
(Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
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Re: Wrong Maine woman declared dead in obit
by Minx on Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:56 am
She sounds like a very remarkable lady with a great sense of humor!
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Re: Wrong Maine woman declared dead in obit
by Outspoken on Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:34 am
Minx wrote:She sounds like a very remarkable lady with a great sense of humor!
She kind of has to have. Now had they shown up with the hearse to pick her up, I doubt she'd have been so calm. 
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Plato (427-347 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)