Daughters reunited with their father’s ashes years after they were lost in the post

The discovery of a father’s lost ash has helped two sisters to put their differences aside years after his residue disappeared.

Lisa Barrett, 63, from Doncaster, England, could not participate in the funeral of her father, Kenneth Wilson, when he died for natural causes in the United States in 2021. She declared to BBC That her sister Laura Greeno, 56, then decided to put up a test on his ashes.

Barrett, however, never got them that a transatlantic mix-up followed, with the Royal Mail that informed her that the package had been returned to the United States due to an unpaid customs duty, while the US postal service claimed they never got it.

Barrett said that Royal Mail sent its financial compensation and a box of flowers for mishaps, but years later the situation has now been resolved when Greeno was able to confirm that the package had been returned to her, according to the BBC.

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Barrett told the outlet that she was left and felt “really overwhelmed” after the family could pick up the box and it helped her relationship with her siblings.

“We two, for the first time in a long time, we had to put our differences aside and our heads together,” she said.

After being brought closer together as a result, Barrett said that she “broke in tears” when they recently had a video call because it was the first time they had locked their eyes since around 2018.

She told the BBC that she was enough for her sister to assure her that “everything would be okay” in the middle of the missing package.

“Every place we looked like seemed to be a dead end, and I just couldn’t help but wonder if this should have been done in the first place,” Barrett told the outlet. “But it should have been done, for no other reason than the idea behind it – she could have sent me ash from Labor Day Barbecue, and I would have been just as excited.”

Royal Mail and US Postal Service did not immediately respond to people’s request for comment on Tuesday, April 8.