Father’s ashes stolen along with Gulfport woman’s purse

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman is looking for an urn carrying her father’s ashes that was stolen along with her purse while she was celebrating her wedding.

The Sun Herald reports that Jen Mullaney Jones had the ashes in a black and gold urn inside her purse when she got married on Friday in Gulfport.

After the wedding, she went with her groom to the Veterans of Foreign Wars building for a toast.

She’s worked there for the last decade, and her father was a veteran. He died in September.

Someone took her purse and the ashes that were in it from her vehicle Friday afternoon while it was parked outside the VFW.

“I’m absolutely gutted right now,” she told the Sun Herald. The veterans helped search the area with flashlights Friday night. Her father, Michael Scott Rordam, was a veteran who died in September.

Police came to the scene, and Jones is hoping someone with knowledge of the purse or urn will come forward.