Portsmouth Salvation Army Get Urn With Ashes Inside

PORTSMOUTH, NH — Someone donated an urn that apparently was filled cremated remains to a Salvation Army thrift store in New Hampshire last week. The bronze urn was engraved with "Richard L. Pettengill 1929-1981," The Portsmouth Herald reported.

The store is holding onto the urn in case it needs to return it to relatives.

It's "odd," but not illegal to donate an urn with ashes, Portsmouth police Lt. Michael Maloney told the newspaper.

The urn and ashes are considered private property, police said, and whoever owned them can do with them what they wish.

An obituary ran in the pages of the Herald's sister paper for a Richard L. Pettengill who died in 1981. He was described as a brick mason who served in the Army.

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