DNA Test to Determine if Englewood Woman Cremated by Mistake in Canada

A Rhode Island family is coping with the unthinkable, according to an Associated Press report: Grieving following the Thanksgiving death of 82-year-old Englewood resident Margaret Porkka, who suddenly died during a vacation in St. Maarten, relatives discovered during her New Jersey funeral that the wrong body was in her casket, the article said.

The article said the body had been prepared by a Caribbean mortician. The family believes Porkka's body was mixed up with that of a Canadian woman who died on St. Maarten at about the same time, and that the Englewood woman's body mistakenly was sent to Canada and cremated. 

The body in the casket was identified as Canadian citizen Kathleen Togwell, 82.  If the cremated remains in Canada turn out to be Porkka's, the ashes will given to her surviving husband, Peter Porkka Sr., AP reported.