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Bronx family threatens suit over burial in possible internal organ mix-up

After their mother's body was buried in a Valhalla cemetery with two buckets of internal organs beside her, members of a Bronx family are awaiting the results of a DNA test to find out whether the organs were indeed hers.

Rhoda Callwood, 82, died Jan. 8 and was buried in Valhalla on Jan. 25.

Bill Curran, the funeral director at McKeon Funeral Home in the Bronx, said Callwood's body arrived...

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