Alberta woman says airline lost husband’s ashes

After two decades of travelling together, Twyla Shannahan knew that when her husband Lawrence died, he’d want to be brought back home.

But at the airport she was told she’d have to put his ashes in her checked bag, and then that bag was lost.

When Lawrence died in February, Shannahan, who lived in northern Alberta, began planning a trip to take his ashes to Newfoundland, where he was originally from, to scatter them in the water. But instead she had to track down his ashes that ended up in Montreal.

“He was late for his own funeral,” she told Global News. “He was a jokester so he would be getting a complete chuckle out of all of this because…

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