October 4, 2003

• Family Angry Over 500-Pound Woman's Burial

  
  

  Casket Not Large Enough, Children Say

  
  

  NORWOOD, Ohio --

  
  

  "The guy and my nephew were both laying on the thing trying to lock the coffin," said Michael Norris, son of the deceased.

  The efforts to close the casket apparently were unsuccessful, and the casket was open when Barbara Norris was buried.

  "I know there was a three- or four-inch gap in there," Michael Norris said. "I stood there and watched them pour dirt on my mom knowing that that casket was not closed properly."

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