Not entirely unheard of, but a little unusual:

Cremated remains left at Wichita liquor store

By Felix Rodrigues Lima
KSNW-TV
updated 10/2/2013 6:16:22 PM ET

WICHITA, Kansas — A Wichita businessman is trying to find the owner of a small bag of cremated remains labeled "Grandma."

Charlie Nguyen, the owner of Charlie's Liquor and Smote Shop on East Central, found the ashes.

"Just like that, people leave phone, keys, stuff like that all the time, but I've never seen anything like this."

Nguyen reviewed security tapes but couldn't identify the customer. The plastic bag holds a small amount of ashes and a piece of paper that reads "Remains of Helen K. Dapron," with "Grandma" in parentheses. It also gives apparent dates of birth and death, in October 1930 and June 2010.

"I tried to post it on the door, tried to return it to someone, but nobody came forward to claim this bag."

When that did not bring up any leads, Nguyen took to Craigslist posting about the find.

"My main thing is I need to return it to somebody. This is very important to someone. This is someone's grandma."

Nguyen says he is committed to doing everything in his power to find the owner.

"1 feel this is very important to me. If it was my relative, I would do whatever it takes to get it back, because this is priceless."

KSN has been trying to help Nguyen with his search for the ashes owners and there's only one record of a Helen K. Dapron in the US that matches up. She lived in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona until her passing in 2010.

If you are or know the owner, call Nguyen at 616-5071.

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The size of the bag implied suggests this isn't the whole person, but ...

The phone number would be US 316 616-5071, which would be long-distance (toll call) from outside Wichita KS, but we could likely pass on (local call here) a PM if someone finds a clue.

LiK was able to confirm birth and death dates for the person at Ancesery dot com, but we don't have direct access to local (Arizona) news sources to look for obituaries like this one. No relatives names were found in any of her searches. The birth/death dates do seem to be correct so she would have been 80 y.o. in 2010.

I don't believe we have many people in the Phoenix area, but it would only take one who remembers her to solve the mystery. While it's not a big personal interest to me, it certainly tweaks one's curiosity.

Makes you wonder if the person who left the bag really needed another drink but I suppose we shouldn't make that judgment without knowing the circumstances(?).

If no clues, discussion of other dumb/accidental things people do might fit with the subject.

John