A woman who was believed to be dead was breathing at a funeral home in Nebraska and is still alive, according to a local sheriff’s office. Authorities responded to the Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home around 11:45 a.m. for a medical emergency, officials said.Law enforcement said funeral home staff was conducting CPR on a woman, who was taken to a local hospital. The woman, identified as 74-year-old Constance Glantz, was declared dead around 9:44 a.m. Monday at a nursing home, Lancaster County Sheriff Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said.Officials said Glantz is still alive and her family has been notified.Staff at the facility pronounced Glantz, who was in hospice care, dead. Houchin said at this time there are no signs of criminal intent by the nursing home, but the investigation is ongoing. Both the nursing home and the funeral home denied comment. Houchin called it a “very unusual case.” “Been doing this 31 years and nothing like this has ever gotten to this place before. There’s been people we’ve gone to and found before, but nothing like this has ever happened,” Houchin said.
A woman who was believed to be dead was breathing at a funeral home in Nebraska and is still alive, according to a local sheriff’s office.
Authorities responded to the Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home around 11:45 a.m. for a medical emergency, officials said.
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Law enforcement said funeral home staff was conducting CPR on a woman, who was taken to a local hospital.
The woman, identified as 74-year-old Constance Glantz, was declared dead around 9:44 a.m. Monday at a nursing home, Lancaster County Sheriff Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said.
Officials said Glantz is still alive and her family has been notified.
Staff at the facility pronounced Glantz, who was in hospice care, dead. Houchin said at this time there are no signs of criminal intent by the nursing home, but the investigation is ongoing.
Both the nursing home and the funeral home denied comment.
Houchin called it a “very unusual case.”
“Been doing this 31 years and nothing like this has ever gotten to this place before. There’s been people we’ve gone to and found before, but nothing like this has ever happened,” Houchin said.
