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SINGAPORE – For 39 years, Mr Marn Chuan Lee paid respects to his grandmother’s grave at least once every three months; keeping the grave tidy and even installing garden lights by her tombstone.
However when the grave in Choa Chu Kang Chinese Cemetery was exhumed in August this year, he knew it did not belong to his grandmother as it contained stuffed toys, colour pencils and a necklace he did not recognise.
The 50-year-old was shocked. “I thought I was going crazy. It felt like some one kidnapped her and we had no idea where she could be,” he told The Straits Times.
He informed the National Environment Agency (NEA), which on Oct 2 exhumed two unclaimed graves adjacent to the one that supposedly belonged to Mr Marn’s grandmother.
Based on the agency’s analysis, the tombstone of one grave was misaligned, which led to other adjacent headstones being wrongly tagged to grave plots.
But the adjacent graves contained men’s clothing, and nothing resembling his grandmother’s belongings.
Mr Marn finally found his grandmother’s remains on Oct 11, after the NEA exhumed five more graves.
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