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The casket was kept closed during the funeral, as morgue officials said the body was too decomposed.
Morgue workers found Johnson during an inventory on Sunday and realized they had sent the wrong body to the funeral home. Medical Examiner Stanton C. Kessler called the family Sunday to tell them to the error.
The family held another funeral on Monday with Leonard Johnson's body. The other body, an unidentified Johnson, was exhumed from the plot at Cambridge Cemetery. The family does not know what happened to other body.
"It's a deep hurt for the family. I can't believe they would actually send a body to the funeral parlor and not know it was the wrong body," he said.
"There were two Johnson, and they were similar, and I guess the wrong one was given out," said Artis Spears of A.J. Spears Funeral Home, which handled arrangement.