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CALEDONIA, Mich. (WOOD) — As Marian Fare’s final days drew near, she clung to her last wish.
“She said, ‘I want to be buried in Florida next to my husband’” recalled Jessica Fare.
“Even though she knew the money was gone, that was still what she wanted,” said Fare, who’s married to Mirian’s grandson.
But when Fare died in May at 96, her family, unable to afford transport for a traditional burial, made the difficult decision to have her cremated.
While her cremains will be buried next to her husband in a military cemetery in Florida, Tim and Jessica Fare know it’s not what their grandparents envisioned.
The Fares think Marian still had faith in Tim’s sister, Sarah DeVries.
“I think she thought Sarah was in control up to the final moment that she passed,” said Jessica.
“She thought Sarah would step in and do the right thing and make sure the burial was taken care of.”
But that didn’t happen.
In May, the same month Marian Fare died, Kent County prosecutors charged Sarah DeVries with embezzling $100,000 from a vulnerable adult – Marian Fare.
DeVries, however, has not been arrested because she’s living in Costa Rica.
She moved her family there – including Marian Fare – in 2012.
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