TOLEDO, Ohio -- An Ohio scrapyard employee picking out things to go into a shredder has helped a Detroit man recover his mother's ashes.
Sixty-eight-year-old Howard Reese used to carry the ashes in an urn in the back of his van, explaining it was like having his mother with him wherever he went. But the van was taken after it broke down some three years ago, and the remains went with it.
An OmniSource recycling employee sifting through scrap in Toledo spotted a container with the name Margaret Virginia Ward, dates and a cross.
Unable to track the name online, employees called on Toledo police, who were able to find Reese.
He and family members took the returned ashes home to Detroit, where they dumped them over the Ambassador Bridge as she had wanted.
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