Rhode Island resident Lisa Kondvar remembers her mother as a beautiful, small and vivacious blonde. So she was shocked to see the body of a tall brunette woman lying in the open casket at her mother's wake in New Jersey on December 9. Right away, the tears and the crying stopped. Kondvar and her family immediately closed the casket and left the room, she said. "It wasn't mom," Kondvar said. "They sent us the wrong body." Her mother, Margaret Porkka, was vacationing in St. Maarten on the family's annual Thanksgiving trip when Porkka suddenly died after feeling light-headed. Porkka, 82, was pronounced dead at St. Maarten Medical Center on November 29, the morning after Thanksgiving. Other than a pacemaker and a right hip replacement, Kondvar said, her mother was in good health and very active.
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Margaret Porkka, 82, died during a family vacation in St. Maarten
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Her daughter, Lisa Kondvar, arranged to have her body transferred to New Jersey
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At the wake, the family discovered the wrong body had been sent
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Kondvar is now seeking answers about what happened to her mother's remains
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