Funeral Home Reaches Out to Widow After Burglary

Lura Glave found many things missing after a burglarransacked her Florida home.  But theworst was finding her late husband’s ashes strewn across her bed.  She believes the burglar may have thoughtthere was something valuable in the gray plastic urn.

When Eric Zink, the funeral director at Life Event Center atFlorida Memorial, watched the news conference announcing the burglar’s capture,he and his staff decided to offer Glave any new urn free of charge.  Glave chose a simple black box with a U.S.Army emblem for her husband of 29 years.

Glave and husband Wesley Barber drove trucks together inalternating shifts until he passed away in June 2012.  Glave no longer feels safe keeping hisremains at home so she plans to place them at the Florida National Cemetery inBushnell. 

See Funeral Home to Replace Urn Disturbed byBurglar, Florida Today, Aug. 6, 2013.