Stolen ashes returned
Published: June 12, 2005
A Burnaby woman has the stolen ashes of her two siblings back.
“It was a miracle. It’s a happy ending, for sure,” Cathy Stewart said on Saturday.
A Cloverdale man who identified himself only as Justin read a story about the cremated remains on Friday morning, said Ms. Stewart, and called her at home later that day.
Justin told her he had found a cardboard box holding the ashes of Douglas and Heather Stewart on the side of the road in Coquitlam on Wednesday.
Ms. Stewart thinks thieves threw the ash-filled boxes out of a car window some time after breaking into her apartment Wednesday afternoon.
Ms. Stewart had made emotional pleas through the media for the ashes’ return on Thursday.
Now, she says, both she and her mother can rest easy.
Because he turned in the ashes, Justin is eligible for a cash reward — something which Ms. Stewart said he initially refused.
“He said if it was coming from the family, then he didn’t want anything,” said Stewart, who noted that Justin will likely receive a police citation, as well as a Crime Stoppers‘ reward, for his good deed.
The family hopes to finally put their loved ones to rest at Robinson Memorial Park cemetery in Coquitlam next week.
The ashes were stolen from Ms. Stewart’s Burnaby home. Stewart was holding her siblings’ ashes while gravestones were being engraved.
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