AUSTIN (KXAN) — A girl in Texas is urging a thief to return a pair of garden ornaments that held particular sentimental worth for her household: They contained the cremated ashes of her mother and father.
Gail Hines, of Austin, stored a sequence of glass decorations often called “gazing balls” in her front yard for a decade. So when Hines’ mother and father handed away through the COVID-19 pandemic, the household didn’t suppose twice about having the ashes put into {custom} gazing balls to be positioned out front as a memorial.
Those gazing balls have been designed particularly with the personalities Hines’ mother and father in thoughts. Her mom, particularly, additionally cherished to be exterior.
But on Wednesday evening, a thief got here alongside and snagged the gazing balls — ashes and all.
“I look over at my gazing ball garden, and it just seemed to be a little bit light,” Hines mentioned. “Mom and dad are gone.”
Gazing balls, if bought brand-new, run wherever from $25-$60, with further prices for stands and sand. But for the Hines household, the worth of those explicit gazing balls is immeasurable.
Hines didn’t attain out to police — she didn’t imagine they might be capable to do something concerning the stolen ashes or decorations — however she is asking anybody who may know something concerning the theft to achieve out. She even arrange an e mail particularly for ideas.
The household doesn’t know a lot concerning the thief, aside from that he drove an older silver sedan. Hines can also be holding out hope that he, too, sees the story and returns the gazing balls.
“There was no way for him to know that my two parents were in those gazing balls,” Hines mentioned. “Please just bring back my parents.”
