Man to be exhumed to retrieve wrong dentures

Parkridge Medical Center has agreed to pay the costs to exhume the casket of a Chattanooga man, after his hospital room-mate's dentures were interred with him, by mistake.

"Our hearts go out to the family of Mister Manis, for the loss of a loved one," Parkridge said spokeswoman Allison Counts. "The hospital inadvertently gave his family his personal belongings, and those of another patient."



Kenneth Ray Manis, 76, died at Parkridge June on 12. He was laid to rest in Chattanooga National Cemetery three days later.

"At the request of the Manis family, Parkridge has agreed to exhume the coffin and to retrieve the personal belongings," says Counts.

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