Stolen urn is back home
"You do have a heart and you did the decent thing. Teach yourself to be better. Do good things, not bad things," said Donna Glover. She was speaking about the person who burglarized her home, then returned the urn with the ashes of her deceased husband in a plastic grocery bag.
Three days after her late husband’s urn was stolen from her Hawaii Kai home, Donna Glover’s prayers for its return were answered.
The varnished koa box that contained the ashes of her husband of 25 years, William, was anonymously returned to Glover in a white plastic bag. The bag was left on the edge of her front lawn yesterday morning.
"I’m very grateful. I’m just very overjoyed that he is home," said Glover, who placed the box in its original spot: atop her dresser in front of a large framed photo of her husband.
About 11 p.m. Friday, Glover noticed the urn was missing. She and her family had returned from a birthday get-together for her grandson at Bucca di Beppo restaurant when she noticed her bedroom was in disarray, with her dresser drawers pulled open.
The burglar or burglars apparently used one of her pillowcases to carry belongings out of the home she shares with her cousin. Other stolen items include two laptops, Glover’s black Coach bag, earrings and a pearl ring her mother gave her on her wedding day.
Relatives believe the burglars entered the home from the master bedroom’s glass sliding door.
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The following day, Glover, a crew scheduler for Hawaiian Airlines, was distraught and overcome with worry that her husband’s ashes would be dumped somewhere. She made a public plea through the media for the return of her husband’s urn, no questions asked.
About 7 a.m. yesterday, Glover was looking out of the living room windows when she noticed a plastic bag on the front lawn. As she walked down the driveway, she saw the urn inside the bag. "I knew it was him. They brought him home," she said.
Glover grabbed it and brought it inside the house, crying in joy and relief. "Thank you, Lord, for hearing our prayers," she said.
It appeared someone had dropped it off sometime after 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
William Glover owned Aloha Repo Inc. He died in June 2006 from cardiac arrest, about five years after he underwent quintuple bypass surgery. He was 50.
Glover said she is thankful to have her husband’s ashes back home and hopes the person who returned the urn will turn his or her life around. "You do have a heart and you did the decent thing," she said. "Better yourself. Teach yourself to be better. Do good things, not bad things."
