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PA woman pleading for return of mother’s ashes

Jun 13, 2015 | 11:44 AM

A Prince Albert woman is devastated after a treasured memory of her mother was stolen.  

Tara Braun and her family went camping in Waskesiu on the weekend of June 5. 

When they returned home on Monday they found their house was broken into and the urn containing her mother’s ashes was gone, she said. 

“My mother passed away from cancer three years ago and that’s a little piece of her I have with me.” 

She just wants whoever took the urn “to have a heart” and think of what they did to one family.

“They rummaged through everything, my son’s bedroom, [my] bedroom, the living room, the cupboards in the kitchen, [but] they didn’t get to the basement,” she explained. 

The devastating loss came when the thief or thieves took a grey fire and water proof safety box from Braun’s bedroom which contained her mother’s urn. 

The family’s house is under renovations right now and they placed the urn in the box to keep it safe. 

“There’s nothing in there expect for our birth certificates and notes we needed to keep safe from fires in cause something ever happened.”

Braun said all she wants is the urn and ashes back, no questions asked. 

“Even if they just throw it in my yard; they know where I live. If they just throw it in my yard and leave it there, just as long as I got it back.”

She said if a member of the public finds the three inch mother of pearl urn she hopes they will turn it into the Prince Albert Police Service.

All Braun wants is her mother’s memory returned home, she said. 

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